Jesup’s Milkvetch
This federally endangered wildflower survives only on a few ice-scoured ledges beside the Connecticut River in Vermont and New Hampshire.
New Hampshire, United States: places and wildlife — page 2
Browse the published Explore collection for New Hampshire, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
White Mountain Fritillary
This small orange fritillary exists nowhere outside the Presidential Range alpine zone, where wind, cold, rock, and dwarf plants define survival.
Robbins’ Cinquefoil
Once pushed toward extinction by collecting and trampling, this miniature alpine plant now survives in carefully protected Mount Washington habitat.
Purple Finch
New Hampshire’s state bird is a stout forest finch whose males look washed in raspberry and whose movements follow shifting seed crops.
American Black Bear
America’s most widespread bear is often easier to recognize by tracks, clawed logs, and overturned stones than by a direct sighting.
Moose
Long legs, a heavy overhanging muzzle, and an appetite for twigs and aquatic plants make the moose unmistakably built for northern country.
Common Bottlenose Dolphin
A curved dorsal fin, robust gray body, and short bottle-shaped beak mark a dolphin that finds prey through both vision and echolocation.
Humpback Whale
Knobbed head, extraordinarily long flippers, and deeply notched tail flukes identify a whale that migrates between feeding and breeding seas.
Harbor Seal
Round head, spotted coat, and V-shaped nostrils distinguish the true seal most regularly seen around Rhode Island.
Black-capped Chickadee
Black cap, white cheeks, small bib, and a curious approach make this year-round northern songbird a foundational backyard identification.
Common Raven
Heavy bill, shaggy throat, and wedge-shaped tail separate the raven from crows as it works cliffs, tundra, forests, and towns.
Ruffed Grouse
Mottled bark-colored plumage, a dark tail band, and the male’s accelerating wing-drumming suit dense young forest better than open lawn.
Hermit Thrush
Spotted breast, plain face, and a reddish tail contrasting with a browner back identify the thrush behind one of Vermont’s clearest woodland songs.
Osprey
Dark eye stripe, kinked long wings, and reversible outer toes identify the fish specialist nesting beside Oregon waters.
Largemouth Bass
A jaw extending behind the eye, deep body, and dark side stripe separate largemouth bass from their smaller-mouthed relatives.
Bluegill
A deep compressed body, dark ear flap, and blue-green cheek identify a widespread sunfish that rewards close looking.
Northern Pike
Duckbill snout, rear-set fins, and pale bean-shaped spots identify the pike waiting almost motionless beside cover.
Weakfish
A slender silver body, oblique spots, yellowish fins, and drumming muscles identify this estuarine member of the drum family.
Monarch Butterfly
Orange wings with heavy black veins identify a migrant whose caterpillars can eat only milkweeds and whose journey outlasts any one summer adult.
Common Green Darner
Large size, bright green thorax, and a dark bull’s-eye on the forehead help identify a darner capable of continental movement.
Black Swallowtail
Paired rows of yellow spots and an orange-centered hindwing eye distinguish a butterfly whose striped caterpillar feeds on carrots’ wild relatives.
Say’s Firefly
A dark firefly with pale margins and an angular shield pattern, Say’s firefly turns summer dusk into species-specific communication.
Large-flowered Trillium
Three broad leaves, three white petals, and a flower held above a single whorl mark Ohio’s woodland wildflower.
Common Milkweed
Opposite broad leaves, milky sap, round pink flower clusters, and warty pods identify a plant central to monarch development.
Mountain Laurel
Glossy evergreen leaves and clustered pink-white cups patterned with ten pockets identify Connecticut’s state flower.
Northern Red Oak
Bristle-tipped leaf lobes, shallow-striped bark, and broad acorns distinguish New Jersey’s state tree from rounded-lobed white oaks.
Tulip Tree
Four-lobed leaves with a notched flat tip and green-orange tulip-like flowers identify one of eastern North America’s tallest hardwoods.
Eastern Hemlock
Flat short needles with pale undersides, tiny hanging cones, and drooping twig tips identify Pennsylvania’s state tree.
Red Maple
Red buds, flowers, leaf stalks, and paired winged seeds recur across the year on Rhode Island’s adaptable state tree.
Eastern White Pine
Long flexible needles grouped in fives, slender cones, and layered horizontal branches identify the eastern white pine.
Currier Museum of Art
The collection moves from Renaissance painting to modern sculpture, while the Zimmerman and Kalil houses make domestic architecture part of the museum.
Strawbery Banke Museum
Four centuries of neighborhood life survive on the Portsmouth waterfront
SEE Science Center
A vast LEGO Millyard, electricity, forces, light, and biology exhibits connect playful experiments to the city’s industrial setting.
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
Aircraft, spacecraft engineering, astronomy, and the stories of Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard connect local biography to exploration.
New Hampshire Historical Society
The Granite State explains itself through objects, archives, and a landmark building
Wright Museum of World War II
Vehicles, uniforms, advertising, household objects, and changing exhibitions examine how war reorganized work and daily life.
Canterbury Shaker Village
Meetinghouses, dwellings, workshops, gardens, furniture, music, and water-powered systems reveal a community designed around order and shared labor.
Aviation Museum of New Hampshire
Aircraft, engines, models, oral histories, and the original Manchester airport terminal connect barnstorming to modern aerospace.
American Independence Center
The Ladd-Gilman house, original documents, furniture, and community programs connect national independence to Exeter’s political networks.
New Hampshire Telephone Museum
Switchboards and handsets turn communication history into a tactile system
Hood Museum of Art
Indigenous, African, European, American, and contemporary works support close study rather than a single encyclopedic march.
Museum of the White Mountains
The White Mountains are interpreted as culture, science, and contested landscape
Millyard Museum
Manchester’s brick mills explain both industrial power and immigrant labor
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire
Play spaces turn regional ecology and everyday systems into experiments
New England Ski Museum
Equipment, racing, trail development, fashion, and mountain culture show how winter travel became sport and regional economy.
USS Albacore Museum
An experimental submarine reveals how hull design changed underwater speed
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
Indigenous cultures are presented through living traditions rather than a vanished past
The Fort at No. 4
A reconstructed frontier settlement interprets colonial conflict and survival