This is an eastern U.S. fish – I went to undergraduate (NJ) and graduate school (MD) back east and worked back there for another 8 years (with one summer in AK) before I landed back in Seattle for good, so I’ll throw in some interesting eastern species now and then. The Percidae family includes the […]
Chesapeake logperch (Percia bimaculata) Read More »
Well, it’s unlikely Allisa is going to cover this one during her Seattle Audubon Master Bird Classes. This is the Hoatzin, a resident of the Amazon Basin and Orinco Delta in South America. The genus Opisthocomus comes from the Greek meaning “wearing long hair behind”. Ok then. This refers to the punk hairdo – or crest. This
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Manaova toy ny dian-tana jerena ny aloha, todihina ny afara. Like the chameleon, one eye on the future, one eye on the past. ———-Malagasy proverb This is another one of many endemic reptiles found on Madagascar. It has a very restricted range, depending on relatively intact humid forests in a band of the southeast portion
OShaughnessy’s Chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi) Read More »
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn’t notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. – Albert Einstein. These are black beetles about 0.2 – 0.8 inches in size. The Family Tenebrionidae includes a number of genera and species that
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You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”!’ Lewis Carrol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This is a rodent that is widely found throughout eastern Europe, the Balkan region, and Central
Forest Dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) Read More »