Monday, September 19, 2016

Need help idenifing these two pictures

Need a little help
 What type of quail, if this is what it is?  Scaled Quail see comments


Is this a otter? Never saw one with spots. It was near a water source.  Spotted ground squirrel   see comments, thank you Susan



Saw these both in New Mexico.

3 comments:

  1. The mammal is a spotted ground squirrel which lives on banks of arroyos. See this article in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_ground_squirrel

    The bird s a scaled quail:http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/scaled-quail

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  2. P.S. Otters are much cuter than this ground squirrel critter (rodent)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_river_otter

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