Category Archives: Wildlife

Bird #399 — Bullock’s Oriole

Posted on May 8, 2001 by Roger

icterus (jaundice) bullockii (given in 1827 by William Swainson, British ornithologist for William Bullock, English traveler and proprietor of Bullock’s Museum in London who collected the bird near Mexico City) Tuesday, May 8, 2001 — 7:27 am San Diego, California … Continue reading →

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Bird #398 — Elegant Tern

Posted on May 7, 2001 by Roger

sterna (tern) elegans (elegant) Monday, May 7, 2001 — 10:20 am San Diego, California — Mission Bay Park — San Diego River On Sunday, as we drove to Point Loma, we crossed the San Diego River about half a mile … Continue reading →

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Bird #397 — Say’s Phoebe

Posted on May 7, 2001 by Roger

sayornis (for Thomas Say, American entomologist who accompanied Stephen Long on his 19th-century expedition to the Rocky Mountains) saya (ditto) Monday, May 7, 2001 — 8:59 am Imperial Beach, California — Tijuana Beach National Wildlife Refuge I still had two … Continue reading →

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Bird #396 — Heermann’s Gull

Posted on May 7, 2001 by Roger

larus (ravenous seabird) heermanni (given in 1852 by John Cassin for Dr. Adolphus Heermann, mid-19th century field collector of birds and their eggs in California) Monday, May 7, 2001 — 8:10 am Imperial Beach, California — Tijuana Beach National Wildlife … Continue reading →

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Bird #395 — Snowy Plover

Posted on May 7, 2001 by Roger

charadrius (plover) alexandrinus (Alexandria, Egypt) Monday, May 7, 2001 — 7:22 am Imperial Beach, California — Tijuana Beach National Wildlife Refuge This was a strange morning. I didn’t have to be anywhere for the convention until noon, and my coworkers … Continue reading →

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