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Cool Critters: Visiting pectoral sandpipers are migration superstars and speed-dating fanatics (opens the original)
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Each autumn, the Inland Northwest becomes an airfield for departing nonstop flights to South America. We’re not talking about some sleek Boeing 777, mind you, but a pointy-winged shorebird that weighs as much as an apple and practices the ultimate version of a hookup. No Tinder necessary. Brown-toned with yellowish legs and prominent streaks on its breast, the pectoral sandpiper began arriving to our region in midsummer after migrating from its arctic breeding grounds. In another few weeks, the
Cool Critters: They run on water, stumble on land and build nests that float (opens the original)
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They’ve finished their flamboyant breeding dance and made it through a secluded nesting season. And now, western grebes – with their ruby-colored eyes, yellow bills and swanlike necks – can be seen in an assortment of lakes and waterways in the Inland Northwest. “They’re in postbreeding phase now, so they’re less secretive,” said Allison Anholt, shorebird biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Staged for migration, western grebes have gathered in deep lakes and reservoirs
Cool Critters: Where are the wasps this September? (opens the original)
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Wasps should be out in full force, raising their families, foraging for food, buzzing, hovering and stinging anyone who ticks them off. But not this year. In the Inland Northwest, these notoriously striped insects are hardly noticeable compared to most years. Wasp populations reach their peak in late summer, said entomologist Richard Zack, of Washington State University. Therefore, by early September, “we would expect to see significant numbers of paper wasps and various species of yellowjackets
Cool Critters: A wizard-like moth called fuzzy butt – yes, really (opens the original)
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After the sun goes down in the Inland Northwest, a moth cloaked in gray emerges. Scientifically known as Tolype distincta, it also dons a bushy-white thorax, evoking the long robe and sweeping beard of Tolkein’s Gandalf the Grey. It also shows large, feathery antennae that extend far from the insect’s head . But for all of T. distincta’s wizardly beauty, its common name is “Fuzzy Butt,” because of the dense tuft of gray fuzz located at the end of its abdomen. “The name just popped into my head s
Cool Critters: An Idaho monarch named New Leaf leads tracking of famous insect migration (opens the original)
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At the inaugural launch of the Adopt-a-Monarch tracking project held in Hayden, Aug. 12, a monarch named New Leaf flew like a bat out of Hells Canyon during the first leg of his epic southward migration. And while it’s too early to know where New Leaf will ultimately land to overwinter, this much is apparent: He is a marathoner. “New Leaf’s journey so far has been extraordinary,” said Washington State University entomologist David James, who’s spearheading the Adopt-a-Monarch project in partners
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