Author Archives: Roger

vermivora (from vermis, worm, and vorare, to devour) luciae (Dr. James Cooper, prominent 19th-century ornithologist, discovered this warbler in 1861 and named it for Lucy Hunter Baird, then 13-year-old daughter of Spencer F. Baird, later secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) … Continue reading →

sayornis (for Thomas Say, American entomologist who accompanied Stephen Long on his 19th-century expedition to the Rocky Mountains during which the phoebe was described, and ornis, bird) nigricans (blackish) Sunday, April 1, 1984 — 12:20 pm Patagonia, Arizona — Patagonia-Sonoita … Continue reading →

picoides (from picus, a woodpecker, and eidos, appearance) scalaris (ladder) Sunday, April 1, 1984 — 12:15 pm Patagonia, Arizona — Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Sanctuary I spotted two Ladder-backed Woodpeckers climbing about on the trunks of the cottonwoods right at the edge … Continue reading →

parus (titmouse) wollweberi (given in 1850 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte for Wollweber, a 19th-century traveler and collector of birds in Mexico) Sunday, April 1, 1984 — 11:55 am Patagonia, Arizona — Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Sanctuary The Bridled Titmice were foraging rapidly … Continue reading →

accipiter (hawk) cooperii (in honor of William Cooper, of New York, who shot the bird which Charles Lucien Bonaparte described for science in 1828) Sunday, April 1, 1984 — 11:45 am Patagonia, Arizona — Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Sanctuary This sanctuary is … Continue reading →