Though she be but little, she is fierce. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream This is a small, common songbird that ranges from Alaska and east across Canada, south to New Jersey, Missouri, New Mexico, and Northern California. Some populations will shift southward into Maryland and Texas but the bird is a year-round resident throughout its […]
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) Read More »
There is nothing more exciting than finding a new thing nobody knows. You won’t believe it, but everything hasn’t already been discovered.” Patricia Wright. his is a medium sized lemur native to a small area on the island of Madagascar. It is diurnal, most active during the day with discrete rest periods between mid-morning and
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are
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This is a subspecies of horned lark found in western Washington and Oregon that was recently listed as Threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Their range is broken into three areas: the Washington Puget lowlands, the WA coast and lower Columbia River islands (including dredge spoils), and the Oregon Willamette Valley. The current
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“Owl,” said Rabbit shortly, “you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest–and when I say thinking I mean thinking–you and I must do it.” A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner This is a small owl with a wide breeding distribution across North
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