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2 unusual facts about Canadensis


Canadensis, Pennsylvania

In the summer Canadensis serves as a home to many sleepaway campers from the tri-state area at Camp Canadensis.

Panther, Pennsylvania

Panther was originally located between the towns of Canadensis, La Anna, and Newfoundland.


Allensworth, California

Of great interest, thousands of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis), use this refuge each winter from November through March.

Camp Canadensis

Canadensis Lower Seniors spend 3 days and 2 nights in Lake Placid, New York each summer.

Codex canadensis

Codex canadensis is the official name of an illustrated book about the native peoples and wildlife in Canada (which then included the upper parts of the Mississippi River system) which was written in or about 1700 by a French missionary priest called Louis Nicolas.

Danthonia compressa

It is a common grass on grassy balds in the southern Appalachians, where it occurs with redtop (Agrostis alba), timothy (Phleum pratense), Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa), Kentucky bluegrass (P. pratensis), red fescue (Festuca rubra), five-fingers (Potentilla canadensis), and sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella).

San Luis Obispo Creek

North American beaver (Castor canadensis) have been thought to be non-native to San Luis Obispo Creek but Bolton recorded in "Anza's California Expeditions" that in April 1774, Father Cavaller of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa gave Juan Bautista de Anza "thirty-odd beaver skins" along with other local gifts including fine Indian baskets and "the skins of eight bears, the animals for which the region was renowned".

Siberian Jay

It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Sichuan Jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan, and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.

Sichuan Jay

It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Siberian Jay, P. infaustus, found from Norway to eastern Russia and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.

Sonora River

Physician naturalist Edgar Alexander Mearns' 1907 report of beaver (Castor canadensis) on the Sonora River may be the southernmost extent of the range of this North American aquatic mammal.

Tidewater goby

Juveniles have been found as far upstream as 12 km, e.g. in Ten Mile River, Mendocino County, and San Antonio Creek and the Santa Ynez River, Santa Barbara County, sometimes in sections of stream impounded by California Golden beavers (Castor canadensis subauratus) which provide ideal slow-moving water habitat for tidewater gobies.


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