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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

Sequoia sempervirens (Redwood)

November 27, 2022 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

As I mentioned in ‘Pivoting’, I hadn’t been in a redwood forest since I was a kid, and at that…

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Posted in: Cupressaceae, Cupresssales, Gymnosperms, Pinophyta, Pinopsida, Plants, Sequoia

Tegula funebralis (Black Turban Snail)

November 25, 2022 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

I love tidepools! I love the smell of the ocean, the roar of the surf, and the disorientation that comes…

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Posted in: Animals, Gastropoda, Mollusca, Species Profiles, Tegula, Tegulidae, Trochida Filed under: Black Turban Snail, Tegula funebralis

Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Tanoak)

November 23, 2022 Dan Nelson 9 Comments

This was not a tree I was familiar with before this trip, although I had heard of it. Still, it…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Eudicots, Fagaceae, Fagales, Notholithocarpus, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Tanoak

Ischnocybe plicata

November 21, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

Finding these beautiful pink millipedes was the primary motivation for visiting the Medford area on my recent adventure, and, as…

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Posted in: Andrognathidae, Animals, Arthropoda, Diplopoda (Millipedes), Ischnocybe, Plants, Platydesmida, Species Profiles Filed under: Ischnocybe plicata

Umbellularia californica

November 19, 2022 Dan Nelson 16 Comments

Finding these trees was a prime objective of the coastal part of my recent journey. Going by the common names…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Lauraceae, Laurales, Magnoliids, Plants, Species Profiles, Umbellularia Filed under: California Laurel, Oregon Myrtle, Umbellularia californica

Katharina tunicata

November 17, 2022 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

I found 3 of these chitons (variously called black Katy chiton, black leather chiton, black chiton, leather chiton, sea prunes,…

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Posted in: Animals, Katharina, Mollusca, Mopaliidae, Neoloricata, Plants, Polyplacophora, Species Profiles Filed under: Katharina tunicata

Riccia sorocarpa

November 15, 2022 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

The first cool find of the first major expedition of my retirement came at my friends Sue and Michael Palmer’s…

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Posted in: Marchantiales, Marchantiophyta (Liverworts), Marchantiopsida, Plants, Riccia, Ricciaceae, Species Profiles Filed under: Riccia sorocarpa

Pidonia scripta

November 5, 2022 Dan Nelson 10 Comments

This is the last thing I’ll be posting for the next ten days or so. I’m heading off to s…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles), Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Pidonia, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Pidonia scripta

Lumbricus terrestris

November 3, 2022 Dan Nelson 8 Comments

To celebrate this being the 500th (499 by me, and one by my beloved nbo Morgan) profile of a group…

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Posted in: Animals, Annelida, Clitellata, Lumbricidae, Lumbricus, Oligochaeta, Opisthopora, Species Profiles Filed under: Lumbricus terrestris, Nightcrawler

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