And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding.

It's the Mexico of film, song and cartoon: arid and semi-arid scrubland. And around Lake Chapala, it's teeming with things to ...

It often builds its nest within a cholla cactus. Its foraging behavior is similar ... Adults distinctive; note different habitat and calls compared with the Bendire’s thrasher.

A Harris's antelope squirrel amongst the spines of the cholla cactus, where it painstakingly searches for cactus fruit - one of the only sources of moisture around. Whilst filming the amazing ...

The Cholla Cactus Garden, located about 12 miles south of the park's North Entrance, is home to one of the few stands of cholla cactus in the park. The short, quarter-mile Cholla Cactus Garden ...

cholla cactus, catclaw, and desert lavender. THREATS: The greatest threat facing Casey's June beetle is habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation due to urban, residential, and recreational ...

Assistant producer Lance Featherstone removes the spines of the Cholla cactus from a glove, after David plunged it into the cactus to demonstrate its vicious defences. Team doctor Patrick Avery ...