Ecosystems and living things

Animals.....

BIRDS
     General
          Bird Friends of Lake Murray and San Diego County
          Birds Recorded in San Diego County, California  from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Black-Crowned Night Heron
     Bullock's Oriole
          from the Bird Friends of Lake Murray and San Diego County
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Turkey Vulture
          from ...

INSECTS
     Argentine Ants
           Argentine Ants and Coastal Horned Lizards  Ant invaders make life difficult for lizards
          No competition among Argentine Ants in California   Ants in California are part of
          a genetically-related supercolony

          Invading ants press united front in California   More on the supercolony
          Butterflies and Their Larval Foodplants   Butterflies of Orange County
     Jerusalem Cricket (aka Potato Bug)   Stenopelmatus fuscus
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     California Treefrog   Pseudacris cadaverina
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
     A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California
          from Fisher and Case, the USGS Western Ecological Research Center

     California Reptiles and Amphibians
          from Californiaherps.com

AMPHIBIANS
General
     A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California
          from Fisher and Case, the USGS Western Ecological Research Center

Frogs and Toads
     California Treefrog   Pseudacris cadaverina
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Pacific Treefrog   Pseudacris regilla
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum

Salamanders
     California Slender Salamander   Batrachoseps attenuatus
          from the Wildherps.com
     Garden Slender Salamander   Batrachoseps major
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Slender Salamander   Batrachoseps species
          from the U.S.G.S. Northern Prairie Wildlife Center

REPTILES
     Lizards
     Common Side-blotched Lizard   Uta stansburiana
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Southern Alligator Lizard   Elgaria multicarinata
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Orange-Throated Whiptail   Cnemidophorus hyperythrus
          from the Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, USGS
     Western Fence Lizard   Sceloporus occidentalis
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum

     Skinks
     Western Skink   Eumeces skiltonianus
          from the Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, USGS

     Snakes
     General   Snakes of Coastal Southern California
          from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center
     Two-striped Gartersnake   Thamnophis hammondii
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Gophersnake   Pituophis catenifer
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Western Rattlesnake   Crotalus viridis
          from the San Diego Natural History Museum
     Western Black-headed Snake   Tantilla planiceps
          from the Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, USGS
          from Californiaherps.com
          Released from pool filter - July 6, 2003.
          Coloration gray with darker gray head, and faint lighter ring around neck.

PLANTS
     California sycamore   Platanus racemosa
          from Scott Koukol at Cal Poly Pomona


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