Bimodal and highly variable precipitation, varied topography, and the biogeographic location of the region—at the interface of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Madre Occidental, and the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts—endowed the southwest with the highest known levels of biological diversity ...
For a short time,Dwight Eisenhowerhad aparakeet Gabby, buried in 1957 at the southwest corner of the executive mansion John F. Kennedyhad acanary named Robinand two parakeets namedBluebell and Marybelle Lyndon Johnsonhad lovebirds It has been nearly 50 years since a pet bird called the White ...
Washington State to northern California, west of the Cascade Mountains Oreotyx pictus plumifer ___ subspecies in Oregon, northeastern California, and Nevada, east of the Cascade Mountains Oreotyx pictus russell ___ subspecies in California in the Little San Bernardino Mountains, described in 1946 ...
It is very localized with a range restricted to southwest Colorado and southeast Utah. It is thought to have formerly been more widespread (possibly in New Mexico, eastern Arizona, southwest Kansas, and Oklahoma). Now the bird occurs in 6 or 7 counties of southwest Colorado and a single ...
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Prehistorically, frequent surface fires are thought to have characterized the dry, warm woodlands and open-canopy ponderosa pine forests of the American southwest and the more xeric low-elevation ponderosa pine forests elsewhere (Schoennagel et al. 2004). Fire intervals were probably shorter in the...
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region // Wikimedia Commons South Carolina - Banned pets: coyote, wolf, tiger, lion, non-native bear, great ape Until this year, South Carolina was one of five states across the country with no restrictions on owning wild animals. On Jan. 1, 2018, a new law made...
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region // Wikimedia Commons South Carolina - Banned pets: coyote, wolf, tiger, lion, non-native bear, great ape Until this year, South Carolina was one of five states across the country with no restrictions on owning wild animals. On Jan. 1, 2018, a new law made...
They can be found breeding in both coniferous and deciduous forest, mixed forest, taiga in the extreme north, and in riparian woodlands in canyons of the Southwest. Hermit thrushes have the largest breeding range of any of the Catharus thrushes, and nest in a greater variety of habitats. ...