TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Red-Breasted Merganser Ladies Red-Breasted Merganser Female Trio- Mergus serrator Palm Warbler- Dendroica palmarum, Order PASSERIFORMES - Family PARULIDAE. It was a very rainy Sunday morning. But I was excited to get into the field to look for warblers in Heuston Woods. Despite the rainshowers, I was able to identify three species of warblers in the transitional forest near Sugar Camp in Heuston Woods State Park. (Photo: April 30, 2004, Canon 10D, EF 300mm f/4.5 5.6 L IS USM, 1.4 Teleexternder)

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.