Category Archives: Wildlife

buteo (hawk) nitidus (bright, shining) Sunday, April 1, 1984 — 1:00 pm Patagonia, Arizona — Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Sanctuary This bird is one of the specialties of the Sanctuary. We first spotted it flying to a perch near the top of … Continue reading →

thryomanes (from thryon, a reed, and manes, cup, refers to nest) bewickii (given by John James Audubon for his friend Thomas Bewick, English artist and wood engraver) Sunday, April 1, 1984 — 12:50 pm Patagonia, Arizona — Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Sanctuary … Continue reading →

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 →