White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
35.8975, -86.8911
Field Notes
Description:
The white-tailed deer is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru. It has also been introduced to New Zealand and some countries in Europe, such as Finland, Czech Republic, and Serbia. In the Americas, it is the most widely distributed wild ungulate.
In North America, the species is most common east of the Rocky Mountains, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah, California, Hawaii, and Alaska. It does, however, survive in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from South Dakota and Wyoming to southeastern British Columbia, including the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands.
Habitat:
Semi rural.
Notes:
I got to watch these 2 young deer through the bathroom window most mornings last fall. They would chase each other around & groom each other - always under mom's watchful eyes! Some evenings we have 7 or 8 does & young in our front yard but strangely we rarely see any bucks!
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