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Title
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Cherry County Bird List
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Date
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1903
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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typewritten notes and lists
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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extracted text
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May 30 - continued
In Trout lake valley
grasshopper sparrow Nests found:
eo s tern Red-winged blackbird, in sequence as
i-winged tlackbird found - 424031 4,
yellou-head ed blackbird Yellow-headed blackbird - 4 4.
blue-winged teal Virginia rail - 9 fresh, 7 incubated.
wn meadowlark gadwall 9.
Sennett 's nighthawk black kien (A
marsh hawk Am. jah rn- 4.
long-billed marsh wren. Forster's tern and pied-billed greb
black tern nesting, but nests not examined.
yellowthroat A nest of the American bittern with 4 eggs
black tern Was sia above water level, lined v i
SYassese
Nest of gadwall also was lined with
The nests of Virginia rail were line
Virginia rail
Am. bittern
swamp sparrow
radwell coarser grasses.
o 5 , - ~ . : ae
pied-billed grebe Ye flushed a flock of 13 prairie chickens,
mallard and were able to note carefully here, as at Clear
billed gull Lake earlier in the day, that the species is defi-
-20 spp. Mitely the prairie chicken; not the sharp-tailed
grouse, which also occurs in this area.
yrairie chicken
On the way back to Stilwell's Ranch on Hackberry Lake
Bartramian sandpiper dove
kingbird wn vesper sparrow n/5 -4 spp.
May 31
Clear; air cold; north wind.
Boing & beet: No list of birds made.
of Forster's terns, near the north shore,
afforded the fol mber of pi recorded in sequence as found:
eis 2.3.3" 3 I 3 on old house of muskrat. Nests of
rushes, placed 4 to 6 inches above water; cup 1 inch deep, 5 inches across.
Black tern - 11; nests of similar construction and placement, shallower.
Yellowheaded blackbirds' nests numerous.
Saw ruddy ducks on Hackberry.
morr ing:
outer
Hackberry Lake in th
A visit to an
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Monahan's Lake in afternoon; no bird list. Found completed n
western lark sparrow.
