Gilly is a canyon tree frog who loves lifting spirits around Los Alamos. Gilly is a member of the family of critters living at the Los Alamos Nature Center on Canyon Road. Canyon tree frogs can be hard to spot because their coloring blends in with their habitat. Look for them on rocks in Acid Canyon, around ponds, or in White Rock Canyon. Their call sounds a bit like a bleating sheep. Photo by Ashleigh Lusher

By RACHEL LANDMAN
PEEC Marketing Manager

Though the Los Alamos Nature Center has been closed to the public, the Pajarito Environmental Education Center’s critter team has stayed busy caring for its resident animals.

Learn a bit more about some of the critters that call the nature center, and the Pajarito Plateau, home. If you see one of these animals outdoors, consider yourself lucky and appreciate it from a distance and never try to pick up or approach wildlife.

Explore the wildlife of the Pajarito Plateau here: Nature Guides or tune in to the daily Take It Outside program. For a bit of critter-themed fun, take PEEC’s “Which Los Alamos Nature Center Critter Are You?” quiz on their website. To learn more about the critters at the Los Alamos Nature Center, tune in for PEEC’s new live-streamed Critter Chronicles series at 11 a.m. Thursdays here: YouTube channel.

Today at 11 a.m. Ashleigh Lusher will introduce Hazel the Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail Lizard and answer questions via the live-chat. Watch this event here.