Birds > Songbirds
Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) is a dazzling, vibrant Neotropical migrant that decorates the highest canopies of Pacific Northwest coniferous rainforests like a living golden jewel. Named in honor of 19th-century naturalist John Kirk Townsend, adult...
Birds > Songbirds
The Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is an intrepid, energetic high-altitude resident that enlivens the silent, snow-clad conifer forests of the American West. Instantly distinguished from all other chickadees by a prominent white ‘eyebrow’ stripe...
Mammals > Lagomorphs
The Mountain Cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii), also widely recognized as Nuttall’s Cottontail, is an agile, medium-sized hare family member masterfully adapted to the rugged sagebrush canyons and rocky rimrocks of the American Intermountain West. Revered for...
Mammals > Rodents
Belding’s Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus beldingi), fondly known across high Sierra trails as the ‘picket pin’ or ‘potgut,’ is an energetic, terrestrial squirrel ubiquitous throughout the pristine alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada and...
Mammals > Rodents
The Olympic Marmot (Marmota olympus) is a charismatic, heavy-bodied alpine rodent found nowhere else on planet Earth except within the high mountain peaks of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Officially designated as the state endemic mammal of Washington, this...
