
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
A talkative burrowing rodent whose clipped lawns and tunnel systems reorganize an entire patch of prairie.
Browse the published Explore collection for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.

A talkative burrowing rodent whose clipped lawns and tunnel systems reorganize an entire patch of prairie.

New Mexico’s state bird is a large ground-dwelling cuckoo: a fast, territorial hunter that rudders with its tail, flashes white wing patches, warms dark skin in the morning sun, and sounds nothing like a cartoon beep.