Birds > Songbirds
The Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) is the quintessential musical voice of the Pacific Northwest’s dripping, moss-draped temperate rainforests. Renowned for its haunting, otherworldly song—a single, long, eerie vibrating whistle followed after a pause by another...
Birds > Songbirds
The Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) is an incandescent, jewel-like songbird named after the vivid blue gemstone lapis lazuli. Lighting up brushy hillsides and sunlit mountain river valleys across western North America each spring, the male’s dazzling...
Mammals > Rodents
The Arctic Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus parryii), celebrated in indigenous Inuit lore as the Sik-Sik, is an extraordinary physiological marvel of the polar tundra. Enduring winter temperatures dropping past minus 40 degrees in the permafrost landscapes of Alaska and...
Mammals > Rodents
The Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata), famously known to mountain climbers as the ‘Whistler’ for its piercing, high-pitched sentry calls that echo across mountain peaks, is the largest member of the squirrel family in North America. Inhabiting the severe,...
Mammals > Rodents
The American Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), affectionately known across northern woods as the Chickaree, is a fiery, vocal arboreal rodent that rules North America’s conifer forests. Renowned for its feisty temperament, rapid-fire chattering scolds, and...
