Northwest Nature Notes

You may be surprised to see obviously immature (brown) gulls at the waterside at this time of year vigorously begging from som...

  PACIFIC NORTHWEST MOTHS Guest blog post from Merrill Peterson, of Western Washington University and Carol Kaesuk Yoon, science writ...

Well, don't we all? By "all," I mean all living things that reproduce sexually. When you think of it mechanistically, an...

There are two native freshwater turtles in the Pacific Northwest. One is very common, the other quite uncommon. The common one is the Pa...

(Results in press as of 8 Jul 2012 at  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X12001828 , pdf available upon request.) M...

No, they're not "gardner snakes" or "garden snakes." They are garter snakes, named after the striped gar...

We have lizards in the Pacific Northwest, but like all other reptile groups, they become more common and diverse as you travel lower in ...