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| Dawn's Nature Page |
Welcome to my nature page on our community website. My name is Dawn.
I live in Queensway Terrace North. I am 10 years old and I am really
into nature, so Henry Swiech asked me to do a page on the community website.
I am a member of the Macoun club. The Macoun Club is a nature club for
youth ages 8 to 18 (http://macoun.zone12.com/index.html).
The Macoun club did a bioblitz of
Frank Ryan and Elmhurst Parks for the website. A bioblitz is when you
choose a certain area and write down all the species you see to get a
sense of what species are there. I hope this page helps you when you
are at Frank Ryan and Elmhurst Parks and that you consider joining the Macoun club.
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Although we live in a big city, we share this area with an amazing number
of plants and animals. Below is a list of species that have been observed
in and around Frank Ryan and Elmhurst Parks. Many of the species on list
are the result of a survey conducted by the Macoun Field Club on 23 May, 2009.
The list of species is hardly complete and we encourage you to submit your
observations of additional species.
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In 2010, we received a list of new bird sightings from our local naturalist photographer,
Hank Vander Velde. Please visit his website
to see some of his work, including a number
of photgraphs of the birds found in our area.
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Birds (alphabetically by last name)
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Red-winged Blackbird
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Indigo Bunting
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Northern Cardinal
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Black-capped Chickadee
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Brown-headed Cowbird
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White-winged Crossbill
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American Crow
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Mourning Dove
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Rock Dove
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American Black Duck
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Wood Duck
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House Finch
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Purple Finch
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Northern Flicker
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Great Crested Flycatcher
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American Goldfinch
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Canada Goose
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Common Grackle
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Rose Breasted Grosbeak
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Ring-billed Gull
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Cooper's Hawk
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Great Blue Heron (Only 1 sighting in Pinecrest Creek)
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
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Blue Jay
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Dark-eyed Junco
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet
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Mallard
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Marlin
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White-Breasted Nuthatch
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Eastern Wood Pewee
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Eastern Phoebe
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Raven
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Common Redpoll
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American Robin
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
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Pine Siskin
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Chipping Sparrow
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Fox Sparrow
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House Sparrow
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Song Sparrow
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White-crowned Sparrow
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White-throated Sparrow
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European Starling
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Scarlet Tanager
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Wild Turkey
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Red Eyed Vireo
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Black and White Warbler
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Black Throated Green Warbler
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Yellow Warbler
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Bohemian Waxwing
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Cedar Waxwing
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Downy Woodpecker
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Hairy Woodpecker
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Pileated Woodpecker
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
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