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Naturalists and ScientistsNOU, Susie Callaway, Letter, 1923, June 20
Fairbury, Ne June 20, 19
Prof Swenk – I am sending you a list of birds we identified this morning. We left our farm home at 7 o’clock A.M. returning at 11:30 A.M. We and Mr. Richardsons are thinking of having our farms placed
in the Bird refuge – would you be so kind as to help us to know what to do to get it placed in a refuge. We do not know what or how to do. Remember us to Mrs. Swenk Thanking you we are Callaway sisters Rte 3 Fairbury Nebr
The Fairbury bird study has composite list of 160 birds Susie Callaway
identified on June 20 by Mrs. Hole, Miss Holly, Mrs. Worden, Mrs. Richardson and Callaway sisters.
1 Blue bird 2. Robin 3. Wood thrush 4. Chicadee 5. Titmouse (tufted) 6. Nuthatch (white breasted) 7. Wren 8. Thrasher 9. Cat Bird 10. Mocking B. 11. Red start 12. Kentucky Warbler 13. Maryland yellow throat 14. Bell Vireo 15. Warbling Vireo 16. Red-eye Vireo 17. Shrike 18. Bank Swallow
19. Barn swallow 20. Dickcissel 21. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 22. Cardinal 23. Grasshopper sparrow 24. Lark sparrow 25. Prarie horned lark 26. Meadow lark 27. Western Meadow lark 28. Grackle 29. Baltimore oriole 30. Orchard oriole 31. Reed-winged black bird 32. Cow bird 33. Crow 34. Blue Jay 35. Great-crested fly catcher 36. Wood peewee
37. Pheobe 38. Arkansas king bird 39. King bird 40. Chimney swift 41. Night hawk 42. Yellow-shafted flicker 43. Red-bellied wood pecker 44. Red headed wood pecker 45. Downy wood pecker 46. Black billed cuckoo 47. Yellow billed cuckoo 48, Bob white 49. Mourning dove 50 Yellow warbler 51. Goldfinch 52. Killdeer 53. Monkey faced owl (barn owl) 54. Field Sparrow
55. Yellow Throated Vireo 56. Purple Martin 57. Hairy Woodpecker