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Category: Chordata

Chestnut-backed Chickadees (Poecile rufescens)

September 21, 2023 Dan Nelson 3 Comments

I really love Chestnut-backed Chickadees! As a bird that is endemic to the region I have chosen to call home…

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Posted in: Animals, Aves (Birds), Chordata, Paridae, Passeriformes, Plants, Poecile, Species Profiles Filed under: Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Poecile rufescens

Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura)

August 23, 2023 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

Who doesn’t love mourning doves, with their subtle beauty, melancholy call, distinctive silhouette, and seemingly gentle ways? I’ve wanted to…

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Posted in: Animals, Aves (Birds), Chordata, Columbidae, Columbiformes, Columbiformes, Plants, Species Profiles, Zenaida Filed under: Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura

Neotamias amoenus (Yellow-pine Chipmunk)

August 8, 2023 Dan Nelson 3 Comments

Since I did not kill, skin, and examine the skull and teeth of any of the little chipmunks I saw…

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Posted in: Animals, Chordata, Mammalia, Neotamias, Rodentia, Sciuridae, Species Profiles Filed under: Least Chipmunk, Neotamias minimus

Sorex trowbridgii (Trowbridge’s shrew)

May 20, 2023 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

I was strolling along the Lacamas Creek Trail in Camas, Washington last week, happily photographing spring wildflowers, when I noticed…

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Posted in: Animals, Chordata, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia, Plants, Sorex, Soricidae, Species Profiles Filed under: Sorex trowbridgii, Trowbridge's Shrew

Thaleichthys pacificus (Eulachon)

February 22, 2023 Dan Nelson 16 Comments

When I moved to Vancouver, Washington in the late 70s I occasionally went smelt ‘dipping’ with a high school friend…

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Posted in: Actinopterygii, Animals, Chordata, Osmeridae, Osmeriformes, Species Profiles Filed under: Eulachon, Thaleichthys pacificus

Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

February 8, 2023 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

This past weekend Pam and I took our regular late winter field trip to the central Columbia River Gorge. The…

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Posted in: Animals, Aves (Birds), Chordata, Galliformes, Meleagris, Phasianidae, Species Profiles Filed under: Meleagris gallopavo, Wild Turkey

Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)

January 9, 2023 Dan Nelson 10 Comments

It has been a busy couple weeks for yours truly! In addition to the holiday festivities, my nbo Morgan recently…

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Posted in: Animals, Aves (Birds), Charadriiformes, Chordata, Haematopodidae, Haematopus, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus bachmani

Black Turnstones (Arenaria melanocephala)

November 29, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

Black Turnstones are fun birds to watch, with their darting ways and debris flipping, hammering at barnacles and prying off…

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Posted in: Animals, Arenaria, Aves (Birds), Charadriiformes, Charadriiformes, Chordata, Plants, Scolopacidae, Species Profiles Filed under: Arenaria melanocephala, Black Turnstones

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)

October 17, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

I am always excited to find any of the woodpeckers (including flickers and sapsuckers) and Picadae is probably my favorite…

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Posted in: Animals, Aves (Birds), Chordata, Dryocopus, Picidae (Woodpeckers and their allies), Piciformes, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Dryocopus pileatus, Pileated Woodpecker

Anaxyrus boreas (Western Toad)

October 9, 2022 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

I had no idea until I started researching this that they had revised the taxonomy and nomenclature of toads (in fact…

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Posted in: Amphibia, Anaxyrus, Animals, Anura, Bufonidae, Chordata, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Anaxyrus boreas, Western Toad

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