Every bird watcher and nature observer has his or her "lists." Here are mine for Birds, Insects, Mammals, Plants, Reptiles, and Crustaceans, complete with pull down menus.
BIRDS
Categorized by genus/species, placed chronologically by common name
American Coot
American Crow
American Flamingo*
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American White Pelican
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Barn Swallow
Belted Kingfisher
Black-Capped Chickadee
Black Vulture*
Blue Jay
Blue-Winged Teal
Bobwhite
Brown Creeper
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Brown Thrasher
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Cedar Waxwing
Chipping Sparrow
Common Grackle
Common Goldeneye
Common Redpoll
Cooper's Hawk
Dark-Eyed Junco
Double-Breasted Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Goldfinch - See American Goldfinch
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Eurasian Coot*
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Graylag Goose
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greater Flamingo*
Hairy Woodpecker
Harlequin Duck
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Horned Lark
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Lesser Scaup
Lincoln's Sparrow
Mallard (Domestic)
Mallard (Wild)
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Scarlet Tanager
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper
Swamp Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
White-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Crowned Sparrow
White-Throated Sparrow
Wild Turkey
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
INSECTS, ARACHNIDS, MYRIAPODS & GASTROPODS
Categorized by family, placed chronologically by common name
Red-Tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis - also known as Buse à queue rousse (French), Roodstaartbuizerd (Dutch), Rotschwanzbussard (German), Poiana della Giamaica (Italian), Busardo Colirrojo (Spanish), and Rödstjärtad vrak (Swedish).
Just watching the empty field below, full of American Robins and a large Woodchuck.
Unfortunately, the light was coming from behind the bird, over “his” left shoulder. Had the light been more favorable, and considering how close he let me approach, I would have liked to get a closer view of his face. I will try this spot again earlier in the day.
Photo taken with the Canon Digital Rebel XT / 350D and a Sigma 70-300mm Lens on March 27, 2009, in Davenport, Iowa.
What a beautiful bird. Winter brings so many of these hawks to our area. I remember as a kid we called them “Chicken Hawks”. My late brother Marty as a child called them “Hawk Birds” and I find myself to this day still calling them that.
There are so many of them here in Iowa, too, from October to April or so, that if a bird is about the right size and shape, I barely investigate. It’s a Red-Tailed.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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What a beautiful bird. Winter brings so many of these hawks to our area. I remember as a kid we called them “Chicken Hawks”. My late brother Marty as a child called them “Hawk Birds” and I find myself to this day still calling them that.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:04 amThere are so many of them here in Iowa, too, from October to April or so, that if a bird is about the right size and shape, I barely investigate. It’s a Red-Tailed.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:51 pm