Having grown up in the Garden State, my mental image of the painted turtle is the East Coast subspecies, which is dark olive green to black on the top of the shell, and plain cream or light yellow ...

Painted buntings are very shy birds, so they spend a lot of time hidden from view in dense habitat. Plus male painteds are known to sing very sweet — albeit somewhat jumbled — songs. I’ve ...

The 6-foot-long painted turtle climbing apparatus will cost $12,340, a set of three red-capped mushroom steppers runs around $4,800, and the log balance beam costs $6,888.