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Bird #344 — Black-billed Magpie

Posted on July 16, 1991 by Roger

pica (magpie) pica (ditto) Tuesday, July 16, 1991 — 10:05 am Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, Minnesota — West Gate Road — Madsen Pool I finally arrived at Agassiz at 8:30, after a more than four-hour drive. It was 90 degrees … Continue reading →

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Bird #343 — Greater Prairie-Chicken

Posted on July 16, 1991 by Roger

tympanuchus (from tympanon, kettle drum, and echein, to have) cupido (the “blind bow boy,” son of Venus because the feathers on the bird’s neck were likened to Cupid’s wings) Tuesday, July 16, 1991 — 6:35 am Mahnomen County, Minnesota — … Continue reading →

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Bird #342 — Red-necked Grebe

Posted on July 15, 1991 by Roger

podiceps (from podos, foot, and caput, head) grisegena (from griseus, gray, and gena, cheek) Monday, July 15, 1991 — 7:35 am Crow Wing County, Minnesota — North Long Lake — Route 371 This one was easy. A Birder’s Guide to … Continue reading →

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Bird #341 — Cerulean Warbler

Posted on June 13, 1991 by Roger

dendroica (from dendron, tree, and oikein, to dwell) cerulea (blue) Thursday, June 13, 1991 — 9:45 am Indiana Dunes State Park, Indiana — Trail 2, east of Wilson’s Shelter Encouraged by my success with the Henslow’s Sparrow, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Bird #340 — Henslow’s Sparrow

Posted on June 8, 1991 by Roger

ammodramus (from ammos, sand, and dramein, to run) henslowii (given in 1831 by John James Audubon for his friend John Stevens Henslow, professor of botany at Cambridge University in England) Saturday, June 8, 1991 — 8:20 am Zion, Illinois — … Continue reading →

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