Author Archives: Roger

anas (duck) strepera (noisy) Wednesday, March 19, 1980 — 5:30 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center This Gadwall was swimming in Crabtree Lake. I was on a duck craze this spring. I felt like I had to see them … Continue reading →

aythya (seabird) affinis (related to) Wednesday, March 19, 1980 — 5:30 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center I agonized over these birds. They were swimming in Crabtree Lake near some Ring-necked Ducks. Were they Lesser or were they Greater? … Continue reading →

oxyura (from oxys, pointed, and oura, tail) jamaicensis (of the island of Jamaica) Wednesday, March 19, 1980 — 4:15pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center I was sitting in the blind on Crabtree Lake when I spotted this Ruddy Duck. … Continue reading →

phasianus (of the river Phasis) colchicus (Colchis, a city at the eastern end of the Black Sea, from which the Greek Argonauts were said to have brought home the original pheasant stock to their own country) Saturday, March 8, 1980 … Continue reading →

eremophila (desert-loving) alpestris (of the Alps) Saturday, March 8, 1980 — 3:00 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center My wife and I spotted a Horned Lark foraging on the entrance road, but as we approached, it flew into the … Continue reading →