Yellow-bellied marmots like me make our homes in the mountains of the western United States and Canada.
Specifically, in our study eagles ate fewer
Yellow-bellied Marmots (27.6 versus 40.3%), Chukar Partridge (4.4 versus 11.7%), and Blue Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) (2.2 versus 13.0%).
However, no studies have simultaneously combined
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker habitat use and host tree selection with host tree morphology and physiology, particularly in the southwestern portion of its U.S.
Early in the past century seven species were found nearly every spring near Urbana but more than 40 years later they were recorded at Charleston in less than half the 23 years: Olive-sided Flycatcher,
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (5 years), Bewick's Wren (8 years and none after 1984), Winter Wren, Loggerhead Shrike, Black-throated Blue Warbler (3 years) and Pine Warbler.
Surely that option exists for those
yellow-bellied quitters who will probably receive more support from Canadian taxpayers than many of our own disabled war veterans.
Species like the otter and the
yellow-bellied toad live there and these species as well as the habitat itself might be threatened as the construction would reduce the quantity of water in the river.
Post-burn transect searches of the site revealed one
yellow-bellied racer (Coluber constrictor) mortality due to the fire.
Another critter that is pesky but usually not lethal is the
yellow-bellied sapsucker.
The land along the Spokane River has been home to
yellow-bellied marmots for thousands of years.
As many a backcountry camper discovers,
yellow-bellied marmots will gnaw through anything to get at stashed food or salty, sweat-stained clothes.
The perpetrators are
yellow-bellied marmots who chew through hoses on automobile engines.
scapulatus) flying foxes, and four isolates from an insectivorous bat (Microchiroptera), the
yellow-bellied sheathtail bat (Saccolaimus flavicentris) (P.
White-throated sparrows, oven-birds rose-breasted grosbeaks, wood thrushes and
yellow-bellied sapsuckers are just a few of the species felled by lit office towers.
While most of Mexico's and Central America's great forest expanses have been razed, new research from the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center shows that some migratory species, like the Kentucky warbler and
yellow-bellied flycatcher, can thrive in patches of forest, and even in heavily shaded coffee and cacao plantations.
Luckily, you had the
yellow-bellied sapsuckers to lean on.
