Category Archives: Wildlife

Bird #125 — Swamp Sparrow

Posted on April 6, 1980 by Roger

melospiza (from melos, song, and spiza, finch) georgiana (of Georgia) Sunday, April 6, 1980 — 4:30 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center This bird was foraging in a strip of brushy trees along the edge of Bulrush Pond, across … Continue reading →

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Bird #124 — Tree Swallow

Posted on April 6, 1980 by Roger

iridoprocne (from iridos, bright color, and Prokne, mythical daughter of Pandion who was changed to a swallow) bicolor Sunday, April 6, 1980 — 4:30 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center These birds were flying back and forth low over … Continue reading →

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Bird #123 — Fox Sparrow

Posted on April 6, 1980 by Roger

passerella (sparrow) iliaca (flanks) Sunday, April 6, 1980 — 4:15 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center When I spotted this bird, I let my wife obey the stay-on-the-path rules, while I took off into the woods in disregard for … Continue reading →

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Bird #122 — Horned Grebe

Posted on April 6, 1980 by Roger

podiceps (from podus, foot, and caput, head) auritus (eared) Sunday, April 6, 1980 — 2:30 pm Barrington, Illinois — Baker’s Lake On the Friday before this, the day that I saw my lifer House Wren, the naturalist at Crabtree told … Continue reading →

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Bird #121 — House Wren

Posted on April 4, 1980 by Roger

troglodytes (creeper into holes) aedon (Queen of Thebes in Greek mythology, who was changed by Zeus into a nightingale) Friday, April 4, 1980 — 11:45 am Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center I spotted this bird foraging actively in the … Continue reading →

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