Author: A. Rentner

Bright colors grace the sky

Late winter and early spring bring so many colors to the Central Valley: White almond blossoms, pink peach blooms, dark green valley oak leaves and in the sky, flashes of brilliant orange. Bullock’s orioles (Icterus bullockii)...

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Who is that masked critter?

It is a fine line between feisty and fierce, one defined by the beholder. The long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) straddles that line, feisty as it stands up to a curious coyote and fierce as it attacks and kills a rabbit for...

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Beep! Beep!

It may be the most familiar critter ever seen on television – more renowned than Woody Woodpecker, Big Bird, Smokey the Bear and Lassie combined. The Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has been on the silver screen for...

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