Category Archives: Wildlife

spizella (finch) pusilla (very small) Sunday, August 19, 1979 — 10:00 am Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center This Field Sparrow was feeding on sunflowers planted along the fence row between the apple orchard and a large field near the … Continue reading →

buteo (hawk) lineatus (striped) Sunday, August 19, 1979 — 8:30 am Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center I confess. This sighting is tainted. The bird had been raised in captivity and released only a few days before. It was a … Continue reading →

myiarchus (from myia, fly, and archos, chief, ruler) crinitus (hair) Saturday, August 18, 1979 — 6:00 pm Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center These birds were flycatching perch to perch in some tiny trees in a meadow next to Turkey … Continue reading →

icterus (jaundice, the name given to a small, yellow bird by ancients, the sight of which, according to tradition, cured jaundiced persons, at which the bird died) galbula (a small yellow bird) Saturday, August 18, 1979 — 5:30 pm Barrington, … Continue reading →

chordeiles (from chorde, a stringed musical instrument, and deile, afternoon or evening) minor (smaller, lesser) Wednesday, August 15, 1979 — 8:00 pm Northfield, Illinois – Willow Road I was driving home from my roofing job when I spotted these Nighthawks.  … Continue reading →