Great Nebraska

Naturalists and Scientists

NOU, Susie Callaway, Letter, 1923, June 20

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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

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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55. Yellow Throated Vireo
56. Purple Martin
57. Hairy Woodpecker