Category Archives: Wildlife

Bird #224 — Philadelphia Vireo

Posted on May 15, 1982 by Roger

vireo (bird) philadelphicus (of the city of Philadelphia, where it was first collected by John Cassin in 1851) Saturday, May 15, 1982 — 10:00 am Elk Grove Village, Illinois — Busse Woods This must have been the stage of my … Continue reading →

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Bird #223 — Yellow-throated Vireo

Posted on May 8, 1982 by Roger

vireo (bird) flavifrons (from flavus, yellow, and frons, forehead) Saturday, May 8, 1982 — 3:00 pm Des Plaines, Illinois — Des Plaines River The Yellow-throated Vireo was foraging slowly, branch to branch, near the top of a tall tree in … Continue reading →

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Bird #222 — Virginia Rail

Posted on May 8, 1982 by Roger

rallus (rail) limicola (mud dweller) Saturday, May 8, 1982 — 9:10 am Waukegan, Illinois — Waukegan Public Beach I finished looking at my lifer Warbling Vireo just moments before. I walked about twenty feet further along the edge of the … Continue reading →

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Bird #221 — Warbling Vireo

Posted on May 8, 1982 by Roger

vireo (bird) gilvus (pale yellow) Saturday, May 8, 1982 — 9:00 am Waukegan, Illinois — Waukegan Public Beach The Warbling Vireo was foraging at eye-level in a strip of bushes and small trees on the dunes along a small marsh … Continue reading →

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Bird #220 — Tundra Swan

Posted on April 10, 1982 by Roger

cygnus (swan) columbianus (the Columbia River where Lewis and Clark discovered this bird) Saturday, April 10, 1982 — 7:45 am Racine County, Wisconsin — Nicholson Wildlife Center Four swans (an adult and three immatures) were swimming in the open area. … Continue reading →

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