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White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably r...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 05:12
The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has big fe...
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 05:07
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:32
This show is all over the place. Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of fall blooming plants and leaves changing color on ot...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:14
The photos are mine and of the plant Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum. It sure is nice to have some white flowers mixed in with the oceans of yellow ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:13
I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:43
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:13
It’s always fun to have a quest when headed into the hills. It’s okay if the search doesn’t work out. It’s like the great old line, “getting ther...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:12
Mala Mujer or Cnidoscolus angustidens is an interesting plant in Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family. It’s found in southeastern Arizona and south in...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 05:09
I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control of my crazy love for chickens....
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- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon and through the night. Som...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 05:45
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:37
I sure talk about a lot different flora and fauna. From three species of quail, to canyon wrens, to Yarrows spiny lizards, to bristlehead (Carphoch...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 05:30
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen i...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 05:07
During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:21
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:20
It’s true that life in southeastern Arizona is full of “behold!” moments. It is so exciting to live in such a diverse land, both in plants and anim...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Well, the getting out of the growing business thing is not going well at all and I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that that I still need to ...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 05:15
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From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
