Category Archives: Nature and the Outdoors

dendroica (from dendron, tree, and oikein, to dwell) coronata (crowned) Saturday, March 31, 1984 — 10:30 am Tucson, Arizona — Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum This bird looked like the “Myrtle” Yellow-rumped Warblers I was familiar with, but with a yellow throat … Continue reading →

icterus (jaundice) parisorum (given in 1838 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, French ornithologist, for the Paris brothers, who did considerable pioneer collecting of birds in Mexico) Saturday, March 31, 1984 — 10:25 am Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona This beautiful Scott’s Oriole … Continue reading →

callipepla (from lophotos, crested, and ortyx, quail) gambelil (given by Thomas Nuttallin in 1843 in honor of his protege, William Gambel, an early field collector of birds in Southwest California) Saturday, March 31, 1984 — 10:20 am Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, … Continue reading →

melanerpes (from melanos, black, and herpes, a creeper) uropygialis (from oura, tail, and pyge, rump) Saturday, March 31, 1984 — 10:00 am Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona I found this Gila Woodpecker perched on the side of a large saguaro cactus, … Continue reading →

campylorhynchus (curved beak) brunneicapillus (from brunneus, brown and capillus, hair) Saturday, March 31, 1984 — 9:45 am Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona The Cactus Wren was singing from a perch on top of an ocotillo stalk.  Its song sounded rather like … Continue reading →