These snakes are often called puff adders and are thick bodied, non-venomous snakes found in the eastern United States. Hognose snake range from southern Florida and east to Texas, north to central New England, the Great Lakes Region, and into southern Canada. They have quite a list of alternative names such as chunk head, hissing […]
Eastern Hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos) Read More »
This is a large, brown and white seabird that exhibits the gliding flight close to the ocean waves common to shearwaters, albatross, and other pelagic seabirds. The upperparts are a gray-brown with pale feather edges on the back and upper tail. The underparts are a contrasting white. This is a general common color scheme for
Cory’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) Read More »
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploringwill be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. –T.S. Eliot. This is a medium-sized tern that is circumpolar – breeding in the Arctic and sub-Arctic northern areas and then getting a second summer by migrating to the
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Came the spring with all its splendor. All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. his is a small songbird of forest edges and dense brush. It’s about 4.5 inches long, has yellow underparts and olive upperparts, pinkish legs, and a small pointed bill. Males have a gray
MacGillivray’s Warbler (Oporornis tolmiei) Read More »
The rain forest was not a garden of easy abundance, but precisely the opposite. Its quiet, shaded halls of leafy opulence were not a sanctuary, but rather the greatest natural battlefield anywhere on the planet, hosting an unremitting and remorseless fight for survival that occupied every single one of its inhabitants, every minute of every
Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata) Read More »