Track Identifiers and Boy Scouts...help me out

I came across a track this weekend I don't have a clue what animal it belongs to. It's small game, I know that much. It has 3 toes/claws going forward and possibly one going backward?

The only likely candidate I can think of would be a badger (but then again, I have no idea what their feet look like). In fact, that didn't even cross my mind until one walked right under my stand Friday evening (the first one I have ever seen in the wild). When you first see it your first thought may be some sort of bird, but I am pretty much positive that it is not. You could clearly see the "pad" part of the tracks on some of them.

What do you guys think?

 

Dude, it looks to me to be some sort of bird track. I dunno!!

Badgers have tracks such as this:

 

I was thinking bird, too, but I really tought I saw a pad.

Maybe just a fat toed pigeon lol?

Maybe I am just loosing it

 

Less drinky for sure!!

 

Or, the rare, man-eating Giant Hummingbird?

 

I hate those things.

 

I found my answer:d.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_/ai_n14728803

 

Possibly Turkey Vulture?

 

I'm leaning towards a hawk or predatory bird of some sort.

 

three toed dino

 

youre all wrong its the elusive yet ever so dangerous Werchicken

 

If it were a predatory bird, there would be talon indentations. I voted for a fat footed turkey with long spurs.

 

Judging by the 'coon track next to the prints.. it looks like a fairly smallish bird. I vote for a plain old crow. (not to be confused with those fancy crows)

Or it could be a bambiraptor* that has escaped from some ultra secret government labratory. You'd be in danger, but I'm guessing that the bobcat ate it. (of course that might just be a housecat track in the second photo, in which case, the bambiraptor ate the cat and you are in danger.)





*honestly, I didn't make that name up.

 

i think its an armadillo.

 

Three-Toed Sloth.

 

What part of the country were you in when you saw them? If you were in Oklahoma I'm positive its an armadillo. I see a bunch of them.

 

Armadillo? That's not nearly as cool as a bambiraptor.

I do believe you've nailed it tho'.

You southerners with your weird critters.

 

Yeah, they're armadillos. Fun to shoot but hard on arrows the way they hop around after a shot! Try for a pass-thru, don't try to pin them! lp

 

Armadillo? We certainly have tons of them around, but I didn't know theri tracks looked like that. I thought they were really small and "claw-sih". Oh well, shows how much I know:d

Hogwire, you're right they are good target practice:d. I have made the mistake more than once of not getting a passthrough. You can kiss that arrow goodbye!

 

I stand corrected. I had no idea armadillo feet looked like this.



You learn something new every day:d