Genus – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Ruby-crowned Kinglet Photo

By Mia McPherson|February 25th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, Corthylio, Corthylio calendula, crown, desert, fall, Genus, kinglet, kinglets, male, new genus, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, seep|

When I photographed this male Ruby-crowned Kinglet a few years ago he was foraging in a sumac close to the edge of road in Box Elder County.

New Genus for Sandhill Cranes

By Mia McPherson|July 9th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Bicknell Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Sandhill Cranes, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, American Ornithologists’ Union, Antigone canadensis, AOU, crane, cranes, farmlands, flight, Genus, male, mated pair, new genus, pair, Sandhill Crane, sandhills, sky, species, wet meadow|

Another change that has officially occurred was that Sandhill Cranes were moved from the genus Grus to Antigone.

Uinta and Richardson’s Ground Squirrels

By Mia McPherson|April 14th, 2016|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Glacier County, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Richardson's Ground Squirrels, Uinta Ground Squirrels|Tags: Genus, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, reclassification, Richardson's Ground Squirrels, scientific name, squirrel, squirrels, taxonomy, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus, Urocitellus richardsonii|

By doing more research I found out that Uinta and Richardson's Ground Squirrels and the rest of the ground squirrels in North America have been changed to Urocitellus.