Petey talks about cactus wrens and his poor hearing too. Hmm, we better listen.
I neglected to mention that milkweeds are no longer in their own family Asclepiadaceae, but have now been included in the dogbane family Apocynaceae....
Mammalogy was one of my favorite courses back in my college days. It was 1968 (early Anthropocene) and there were…
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably rolling in his grave...