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Title
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Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911
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Date
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June 17-July 2, 1911
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-1911
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Rights
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Species of Birds Observed in
Sioux County, June 17th to
July end, 1911.
- Killdeer
Bobwhite
Sharp-tailed grouse
“Mourning dove
Turkey vulture
Krider hawk
_ Ferruginéus rough-legged hawk
Prairie falcon
Desert Sparrow hawk
Western horned owl
_ Blaeck-billed cuckoo
Belted kingfisher
Mountain hairy yvoodpecker
Red-headed woodpecker
Lewis woodpecker
Northern flicker
Red-shafted flicker
-Poor-will
Western nighthawk
fe e-throated rock swift
Pitkensas flycatcher
Say phoebe
Desert horned lark
Magpie
Blue jay
Pinion jay
Crow
Gowbira
Red-winged blackbird
Western meadowlark
Bulloek oriole
Brever blackbird
_ Red erossbill
- Western goldfineh
Western vesper sparrow
- Western
Western grasshonver sparrow
Western lark sparrow
chipping sparrow
Vestern field sparrow
white-winged junco
Arctic towhee
Black-headed vrosbeak
Lark bunting
Lazuli bunting
In the matter of bird notes I must draw
sparingly upon the observations recorded,
for there is a mass of detail which might be
written here. I shall confine myself to a
list of the species observed during our first
trip to Sioux County, with notes regarding a
limited number of species.
. :
White-rumped Shrike. - Common about the
heads of the canyons. At the head of Monroe
Canyon for half a mile or more the barb-wire
fenee was decorated with the shrikes' vic-
tims - chiefly grasshoppers and crickets -
sonetinmes as many as five being impaled on
the wires between two posts.
Red Srossbill. - One flock seen.
Doubtless a resident in this region. -
Western Meadow-lark. - Common in Hat
Creek Valley, and particularly fond of hang-
ing around the creeks, where I saw them
sometimes in flocks of a dozen or more,
wading in the shallow water of marshy
places like so many sandpipers.
Crow. - Rarely seen.
Blue Jay. - Three specimens observed,
one in Hat Creek Valley and two in Monroe |
wa Canyon & ;
Kingbird. - Often associated with the
Arkansas Plycatcher, which is the prevailing
species of the group here.
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Yellow-shafted Flicker. - For several
days I believed that I had seen a yellow-
shafted flicker associated with the common
red-shafted flicker, and finally on two oe-
easions saw specimens at short distances
and unmistekebly. | —
Krider Hawk. - A common species, the @
nests being placed on the face of bluffs, or
in pines. The birds nest early in the a
spring, so the nests we found were unoceu- |
pied - excepting one, found June 28th, in |
the top of a large pine near the mouth of
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