The zone-tailed hawk is a medium-sized species of hawk that hails from southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America
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The Nepal house martin is a nonmigratory bird that hails from southeast Asia. They can be found at elevations of up to 13,100 feet! While these little birds don’t face any significant threats, they are faced with habitat loss and destruction, predation, pesticides,
The eastern subterranean termite is the most commonly found and most economically significant termite in North America. They are found as far north as southern Ontario. Originating in southeastern United States they are considered to be invasive in
The broad-tailed hummingbird is a medium-sized hummingbird found at higher elevations from western Canada, western United States, Mexico, and Central America. These hummingbirds are abundant and often seen buzzing around flowers and hummingbird feeders in gardens
The blue-headed quail-dove, aka blue-headed partridge-dove, hail from the pigeon and dove family and are endemic to island of Cuba. These birds face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the logging industry; hunting; trapping; invasive species, via feral cats preying on both
The black-chinned hummingbird has a broad range of habitats from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. These hummingbirds are migratory and travel great distances to overwinter in the south. Some of the threats they face are habitat loss and destruction at the hands of
The western house martin, aka common house martin, northern house martin, or house martin, can be found throughout Europe, western Asia, and Africa. They are a passerine bird from the swallow family. These birds are threatened by invasive species,
There are approximately 600 species, 34 genera, in 9 families of scorpionfly the world over. But what do they do? Do they sting? Are they a threat? With the male’s raised and curled tail, they resemble a scorpion, but are they as ominous as the famed arachnids? These insects are […]
The square-tailed kite is in the family Accipitridae, which also includes other raptors like eagles and harriers. These kites dwell throughout most of Australia. Even though more than half of their territory has been decimated for use as agricultural land and the fact that they face
While the Japanese beetle is not classified as a pest species in its native Japan, in Europe and North America they are a pest to over 300 species of plant life. Plants such as birch trees, cannabis, crape myrtles, grapes, hops, linden trees, rose bushes, and more are all affected […]