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The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States and appears on its Great Seal.The bald eagle's range includes all of the contiguous United States and Alaska.. The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago, Alaska in the Arctic, and several island-territories in the ...
The Old Farmer’s Almanac has aggregated a couple dozen adages about insects, animals and their ability to predict weather patterns.. Some of the claims are dubious. Dogs eating grass, for ...
Common folk names for this bird in the southern United States are rain crow and storm crow. These likely refer to the bird's habit of calling on hot days, often presaging rain or thunderstorms. The genus name is from the Ancient Greek kokkuzo, which means to call like a common cuckoo, and americanus means "of America".
All the perks of warm weather comes at a cost: the return of pests. As temperatures rise, here is a list of animals and insects that reawake during the spring time and could cause you problems in ...
Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Virginia opossum, D. virginiana [n 1] [n 2] LC
While the animals in the Amazon are often larger than life, this South American rainforest region have some of the world’s smallest creatures
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals.