The white-tailed deer, or odocoileus virginianus leucurus, lives in western Oregon and Washington. A single deer has a range of anywhere from 150 acres to 400 acres. Males usually have a larger range than females.
The ideal habitat for a white-tailed deer would be a place where there is grass, some trees, and a water souse. White-tails always live someplace where there is some kind of cover. They cannot live were there is total shade or where there is no shade. White-tails live usually, but not always, where there is a lot of shrubbery. They like forests where there are pine, oak and cotton wood trees. They can live in marshes, canyons, prairies, pasture lands, meadows, and fields.
The White tail deer is a mammal, an ungulate. They are endangered.
The white-tailed deer has long thin legs that contain powerful muscles. They walk on their two middle toes that have evolved into tough divided hooves. Their large round eyes are good for spotting approaching danger. They have big ears and a long slender neck.
The males are called bucks, the females are called does, and the babies are called fawns.
The primary food of the white-tailed deer is usually leafy plants. The secondary food is baby plant shoots. There must be at least 2 food sources in the area for a white-tail to survive. Even if there is no food in an area they will stay there. They have four-part stomachs like cows. The plants they eat give them so much water that they don't need to drink very often. When they do drink they prefer to drink from puddles instead of waterholes, lakes, and streams because they could be attacked by predators there. When they drink they can consume up to 5 quarts a day.
Bucks are willing to go up to their necks in the water, but females don't go into the water past their stomach. During the winter they will eat snow and not drink at all.
One thing that threatens them is logging. Logging also helps them in the long run too. When the trees first get cut down all the plants that the deer eat are destroyed to. But after a while the small plants and bushes that the white-tails eat grow much better.
White-tailed deer don't migrate much except from their winter range, lower elevation, to their summer range, higher elevation. There isn't much happening to protect the white-tailed deer that live in the Northwest even though there are not many living there. I think that there should be a law or something against hunting them.