ODNR Division of Wildlife - Wild Kids

Game and Nongame Identification

 
Wild animals that we may legally fish, hunt, and trap are called game animals. All other kinds of wildlife are known as nongame animals. Game animals may only be taken according to legal fishing, hunting, and trapping seasons. The number of wild animals that a person may take by hunting or trapping is known as a bag limit. The number of fish that an angler may take by fishing is known as a creel limit. Which of the wild animals below are game animals and which are nongame animals in Ohio?

Print this page and draw a circle around all the game animals and a triangle around all the nongame animals. Answers are available here.


Cardinal, largemouth bass, white-tailed deer, ring-necked pheasant

Gray squirrel, river otter, cottontail rabbit

Wild turkey, bald eagle, turkey vulture

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