ouzel's Favorites
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Western Brush Cricket (Hoplosphyrum boreale)Observer
kuedaDescription
A new-to-me cricket that was actually pretty common along the trail. They really are scaly!
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West Coast Ant Cricket (Myrmecophilus oregonensis)Observer
kuedaDescription
These tiny crickets live inside ant colonies, feeding on… ant excrement. Well, not poop, I don't think, but some other form ant secretion. Gross AND awesome. And small, about 5 mm long. I'm basing this ID on the range descriptions in this paper (entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/s391lh20.pdf), which describes M. manni as not occurring west of the Cascades / Sierras / Tehachapis, except at San Diego. Not sure if they should be considered current or not.
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skycatDescription
花は2月頃より開花し、３枚の萼裂片が長三角形で、萼筒より長く大きいことが特徴
Flowers bloom from around February.Three sepals are long triangles, longer than calyx tubes
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San Francisco Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis ssp. tetrataenia)Observer
jdwillson
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Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)Observer
eric_grahamDescription
eating wild boar
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Crystal Springs Fountain Thistle (Cirsium fontinale var. fontinale)Observer
toucan55
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Squirrels (Family Sciuridae)Observer
rickDescription
Fresh evidence of a porcupine chewing down to the cambium layer leaving behind very shallow grooves where their incisors scraped against the wood.
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Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus ssp. oreganus)Observer
kai_tranDescription
Flipped under small rock.
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Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)Observer
danie143Description
Saw on a bird walk with A. Fisher. @antnat
