Habitat: It is probably the best known of all ducks. Its distribution extends throughout the northern hemisphere. This migratory bird also frequents Central America and ...

It inhabits much of America, from Canada to Tierra del Fuego. It is a widely used bird in falconry. It is one of the few ...

The horned owl is an American predatory nocturnal bird and is considered an important element in the structure and function of ecosystems where it regulates ...

It locates corpses with its keen vision and sense of smell, flying low enough to detect the gases produced by the early decomposition process of ...

Adult males have an oxide-red body, a blue beak, and a white face with a black top head. Adult females have a greyish-brown body, blackish ...

The American badger is an opportunistic carnivorous mammal with nocturnal habits and is rarely observed in broad daylight. Habitat: The American badger likes to live ...

It is a species of squirrel from North America, native to northwestern Mexico. It is easy to detect on rocky slopes in arid canyons and ...

The desert kangaroo rat (Dipodomys deserti) is a rodent found in desert areas of southwestern North America. It is one of the large kangaroo rats, ...

The pocket mouse, found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, is medium-sized (~18 cm long, ~12-18 g in weight) and has ...

The coyote (Canis latrans, meaning “howling dog”) is a species of carnivorous mammal found only in the Americas, from Canada to Colombia. They are usually ...

The California sea slug (Aplysia californica) is a gastropod mollusk of the family Aplysiidae. It and all species of this genus are commonly referred to ...

The Mexican fiddler crab, is a species of crab that owes its common name to its common name to its chelae, pincers or “pincers”, which ...

It is a moderately sized lizard; males have a length of 6.7 – 9.9 cm and females 6.7 to 8.7 cm. This species is adapted ...

They are medium-sized, heavy-bodied snakes. They generally measure from 45 cm to 90 cm. The longest known are around 130 cm. The background color of ...

  It is a viper that reaches the 50 cm to 80 cm of total length, with some records of specimens reaching up to 82.4 ...

  They are thin-bodied snakes with small heads and large eyes with round pupils. They vary greatly in color, but most reflect a camouflage appropriate ...