Category Archives: Wildlife

psiloscops (psilos, naked, smooth, and scops, eared owl) flammeolus (diminutive of flammeus, flame-colored, or “small, flaming-red”) Wasatch Mountain State Park, Utah — Pine Canyon Road Wednesday, June 16, 2021 — 9:58 pm It is thought that Flammulated Owls  are rare … Continue reading →

glaucomys sabrinus Wasatch Mountain State Park, Utah — Pine Canyon Road Wednesday, June 16, 2021 — 9:50 pm I was standing on a dirt road high in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. It was dark, and I was with a … Continue reading →

vireo (bird) vicinior (from vicinus, neighboring, related — because of its similarity to other species) Rio Blanco County, Colorado — Snake John Reef Road Wednesday, June 16, 2021 — 6:58 am The range of the Gray Vireo centers on the … Continue reading →

callipepla (from kallos, beautiful, and pepla, robe) californica (California) Vernal, Utah — Ashley Nature Park Tuesday, June 15, 2021 — 7:37 pm The main range of the California Quail includes California, Oregon, and parts of Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. There … Continue reading →

I drove south to the tiny community of Pryor to look for a Hepatic Tanager in the same spot where I saw my lifer (and only, to date) one a couple years ago. Other birders have reported it from there … Continue reading →