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  • Full of rattlesnakes, blue-tailed lizards, and beer-drinking rednecks.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • Full of rattlesnakes, blue-tailed lizards, and beer-drinking rednecks.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying.

    Karen Talavera: Do You Know Who You Really Are, and Are You Living as if You Believe it? Karen Talavera 2011

  • As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying.

    Karen Talavera: Do You Know Who You Really Are, and Are You Living as if You Believe it? Karen Talavera 2011

  • Ten different dragonflies were recorded, and successful photographs were taken of the rare emerald and the tiny but attractive blue-tailed damselfly.

    Country diary: Loch Bran 2010

  • We pass blue-tailed lizards, their fat bodies warming on the rocks.

    Non-Self: Light, Dark 2009

  • We pass blue-tailed lizards, their fat bodies warming on the rocks.

    Non-Self: Light, Dark 2009

  • According to Stattersfield et al. this ecoregion falls within the North Central American Pacific slope Endemic Bird Area with four restricted range species three of which are endemic including the white-bellied chachalaca (Ortalis leucogastra), the blue-tailed hummingbird (Amazilia cyanura) and the giant wren (Campylorhynchus chiapensis).

    Central American dry forests 2009

  • (And yes, once I figured out we were dealing with only one mouse, and that I had effectively blocked it from ever returning to the inside of our home, I actually did contemplate setting the live trap in the park to see if I could catch a blue-tailed mouse and bring it back to its home turf in our garden.)

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • The beautiful blue-tailed species so abundant in Ke was not seen here.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

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