Down at the bottom of that dirty ol’ riverDown where the reeds and the catfish playThere lies a dream as soft as the waterThere lies a bluebird that’s flown awayThere lies a bluebird that’s flown away–Catfish song, Townes Van Zandt. The channel catfish is a wide-ranging species with a distribution from the Hudson Bay region […]
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he grass divides as with a comb,A spotted shaft is seen;And then it closes at your feetAnd opens further on ——Emily Dickinson, The Snake This is a common snake within its range, averaging 42-72 inches in length, with a diameter at the widest section of its body of 1.5 inches and typically weighing 1 – 5
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The guanaco, or wild llama, is the characteristic quadruped of the plains of Patagonia; it is the South American representative of the camel of the East. It is an elegant animal in a state of nature, with a long slender neck and fine legs. It is very common over the whole of the temperate parts
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“I think he’ll be to Rome/As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/By sovereignty of nature.” Coriolanus, William Shakespeare The more common name for this bird is osprey, but it also is known as a sea hawk or fish hawk. Osprey have a wide distribution across North America and are found along the coasts
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his isle abounds with an infinite number of fowl, as Fulmar, Lavy, Falk, Bowger, etc.—A Late Voyage to St. Kilda, Martin Martin (1698). The northern fulmar is a pelagic bird of the northern oceans – it spends the vast majority of its life at sea and only comes to land to breed. They are related
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