Category Archives: Wildlife

calamospiza (from kalame, a stalk of grain, and spiza, finch) melanocorys (from melanos, black, and korus, lark, because it sings in flight) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 4:55 pm County Road 10 north of Las Animas, Colorado Lark Buntings are … Continue reading →

sylvilagus audubonii Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 2:42 pm Bent’s Fort National Historic Site, Colorado As I toured the fort, I wandered out into this courtyard. Behind the wagon in the shed on the left there is a wood pile. … Continue reading →

limnothlypis (marsh finch) swainsonii (named after 19th-century English ornithologist William Swainson, by John James Audubon) Tuesday, April 24, 2012 — 7:40 pm Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia — Reids Station Road It was 7:30 and dusk was swiftly approaching. I’d … Continue reading →

asterocampa celtis (hackberry) Tuesday, April 24, 2012 — 2:45 pm Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia — Beaver Swamp Trail My primary objective for visiting Bond Swamp was to see a Swainson’s Warbler, but I wasn’t opposed to seeing other … Continue reading →

Elaenia (olive) parvirostris (from parvus, small, and rostrum, beak) Sunday, April 22, 2012 — 4:40 pm Chicago, Illinois — Douglas Park I was flipping through the Chicago Tribune this morning when I happened upon this article. Having recently decided to … Continue reading →