Columbian Blacktail…
blacktail deer occupy coastal regions of western North America. There are two subspecies, the
Columbian black-tailed deer (
Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) which ranges from the Pacific Northwest of the United States and coastal British Columbia in Canada to Santa Barbara County in Southern California and a second subspecies known as the
Sitka deer (
O. h. sitkensis) which is geographically disjunct occupying from mid-coastal British Columbia up through southeast Alaska, and south central Alaska (as far as Kodiak Island).The black-tailed deer subspecies are about half the size of the inland Mule deer (
Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) subspecies, the latter ranging further east in the western United States.
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