Three whitetail deer foraging along Lake Templene lake shore after the lake draw down during the winter of 2010. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru. For more information visit Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-ta...