Arkansas kingbird
western kingbird | a kingbird seen in western United States, head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black |
western wood pewee
Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
western meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta | a meadowlark of western North America |
| marsh wren | a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes |
long-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
western tanager
Piranga ludoviciana | of western North America, male is black and yellow and orangeed |
| harrier | hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals |
marsh harrier
Circus Aeruginosus | Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions |
Montagu's harrier
Circus pygargus | brownish European harrier |
marsh hawk
northern harrier
hen harrier
Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
western red-backed salamander
Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
western toad
Bufo boreas | of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies |
western spadefoot
Scaphiopus hammondii | this spadefoot toad live in California |
western narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
Western box turtle
Terrapene ornata | primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico |
western fence lizard
swift blue-belly
Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
western skink
Eumeces skiltonianus | found in western North American grasslands and open woodlands |
western whiptail
Cnemidophorus tigris | active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings, of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California |
Western ribbon snake
Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
western blind snake
Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
western coral snake
Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
prairie rattlesnake
prairie rattler
Western rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis | widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
Western diamondback
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox | largest and most dangerous North American snake, of southwestern United States and Mexico |
Ixodes pacificus
western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
gallinule
marsh hen water hen swamphen | any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens |
American coot
marsh hen mud hen
water hen Fulica americana | a coot found in North America |
| harrier | a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller, used to hunt rabbits |
western pipistrel
SPipistrellus hesperus | of western North America |
western big-eared bat
Plecotus townsendi | bat of western North America having extremely large ears |
marsh hare
swamp rabbit Sylvilagus palustris | a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida |
western grey squirrel
western gray squirrel
Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
western lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla gorilla | a kind of gorilla |
western chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes verus | masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa, distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees, possibly a distinct species |
double-bitted ax
double-bitted axe
Western ax
Western axe | an ax that has cutting edges on both sides of the head |
stock saddle
Western saddle | an ornamented saddle used by cowboys, has a high horn to hold the lariat |
swamp buggy
marsh buggy | an amphibious vehicle typically having four-wheel drive and a raised body |
Western
horse opera | a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development |
| spaghetti Western | a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company |
| Western Malayo-Polynesian | a western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages |
country music
country and western
C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
western
western sandwich | a sandwich made from a western omelet |
| western omelet | a firm omelet that has diced ham and peppers and onions |
Roman Catholic
Western Church
Roman Catholic Church
Church of Rome
Roman Church | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
Western culture
Western civilization | the modern culture of western Europe and North America, when Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea |
western hemisphere
occident New World | the hemisphere that includes North America and South America |
| West western United States | the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River |
Western Roman Empire
Western Empire | the western part after the Roman Empire was divided in , it lasted only until |
| Western Australia | a state containing the western third of Australia |