The other morning, I had just scattered seed for the quail and other ground-feeding birds and filled their watering dish. Amongst the usual finches, quail, thrashers and chickadees, I noticed a bird ...
Lately I have been a “peeping Tom” in a nearby eco-reserve, monitoring the breeding behavior of coastal cactus wrens, a bird whose population is in steep decline throughout Southern California. The ...
The bushy-tailed Ringtail is Arizona’s official state mammal. The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is venomous, but its bite is rarely fatal. An 11-year-old child proposed the idea of an official state ...
A coastal cactus wren on a live cholla. Frequent wildfires have charred the wren’s habitat in southern California. Scientists have built fake cholla, made of PVC pipe and barbed wire, for the birds to ...