White-tailed Deer

Description:

The white-tailed deer is a medium-sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru. The white-tailed deer is highly variable in size, generally following Bergmann's rule that the average size is larger further away from the Equator. North American male deer (also known as a buck or stag) usually weighs 60 to 130 kg (130 to 290 lb) but, in rare cases, bucks in excess of 159 kg (350 lb) have been recorded.

Habitat:

In North America, the species is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. In western North America, it is found in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from South Dakota and Wyoming to southeastern British Columbia, including the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands. This doe and fawn was photographed at Brick Pond Park in North Augusta (Aiken County), SC.

Notes:

This is a documentation photo.