Category Archives: Wildlife

calidris (speckled water bird) alpina (alpine) Friday, May 15, 1981 — 7:10 am Hoffman Estates, Illinois — Poplar Creek Forest Preserve — Bode and Barrington Roads At 7:00 a.m. I had already seen 22 species, and two of them were … Continue reading →

calidris (speckled water bird) minutilla (very small) Friday, May 15, 1981 — 6:30 am Hanover Park, Illinois — field near Hanover Park water tower When the Wilson’s Phalaropes flew out of sight, I moved in closer to identify the other, … Continue reading →

phalaropus (from phalaris, coot, and pous, foot) tricolor (three colors) Friday, May 15, 1981 — 6:30 am Hanover Park, Illinois — field by Hanover Park water tower I had heard from another birder about a lot of shorebirds near the … Continue reading →

polioptila (from polios, gray, and ptilon, feather) caerulea (blue) Saturday, May 2, 1981 — 1:00 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center I was walking the path through the woods along Bulrush Pond near the blind. I heard a high-pitched … Continue reading →

cistothorus (from kistos, a flowering shrub, and thouros, rushing) palustris (marshy) Wednesday, April 29, 1981 — 2:45 pm Inverness, Illinois — Palatine Road east of Barrington Road The large marshy area about a mile east of Barrington Road where I … Continue reading →