mountain climbing
mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain |
American football
American football game | a game played by two teams of players on a rectangular field yards long, teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
| Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (), Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
American Civil War
United States Civil War
War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
American Revolution
American Revolutionary War
War of American Independence
American War of Independence | the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain, - |
Spanish-American War
Spanish War | a war between the United States and Spain in |
European bream
Abramis brama | European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales, of little value as food |
flagfish
American flagfish
Jordanella floridae | a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes, found in swamps and streams of Florida |
American smooth dogfish
Mustelus canis | found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
blackbird merl
merle
ouzel ousel European blackbird
Turdus merula | common black European thrush |
robin American robin
Turdus migratorius | large American thrush having a rusted breast and abdomen |
American redstart
redstart Setophaga ruticilla | flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail |
New World oriole
American oriole
oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
American crow
Corvus brachyrhyncos | common crow of North America |
common European jay
Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
Rocky Mountain jay
Perisoreus canadensis capitalis | a Canada jay with a white head, widely distributed from Montana to Arizona |
European magpie
Pica pica | a common magpie of Eurasia |
American magpie
Pica pica hudsonia | a magpie of Rocky Mountains in North America |
brown creeper
American creeper
Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
European creeper
Certhia familiaris | common European brown-and-buff tree creeper with downurved bill |
European nuthatch
Sitta europaea | a kind of nuthatch |
European shrike
Lanius excubitor | a common European butcherbird |
European water ouzel
Cinclus aquaticus | a water ouzel of Europe |
American water ouzel
Cinclus mexicanus | a water ouzel of western North America |
sparrow hawk American kestrel
kestrel Falco sparverius | small North American falcon |
bald eagle
American eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
European fire salamander
Salamandra salamandra | a kind of European salamander |
crapaud
South American bullfrog
Leptodactylus pentadactylus | large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog |
European toad
Bufo bufo | common toad of Europe |
American toad
Bufo americanus | common toad of America |
American green toad
Bufo debilis | small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
| South American poison toad | a South American toad |
European tortoise
Testudo graeca | small land tortoise of southern Europe |
American chameleon
anole
Anolis carolinensis | small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color |
mountain skink
Eumeces callicephalus | frequents oak and pine habitats in rocky mountainous areas of United States southwest and Mexico |
mountain devil
spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
American alligator
Alligator mississipiensis | large alligator of the southeastern United States |
black rat snake
blacksnake pilot blacksnake
mountain blacksnake
Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
European wolf spider
tarantula Lycosa tarentula | large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) |
wood tick
American dog tick
Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
European black grouse
heathfowl
Lyrurus tetrix | large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail |
mountain quail
mountain partridge
Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
European cuckoo
Cuculus canorus | common cuckoo of Europe having a distinctive two-note call, lays eggs in the nests of other birds |
European roller
Coracias garrulus | common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back |
European swift
Apus apus | common European bird with a shrieking call that nests chiefly about eaves of buildings or on cliffs |
European goatsucker
European nightjar
Caprimulgus europaeus | Old World goatsucker |
American widgeon
baldpate
Anas americana | a widgeon the male of which has a white crown |
American merganser
Mergus merganser americanus | common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander |