brown creeper- a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill American creeper,Certhia americana tree creeper,creeper- any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet ...
Birds of the Grand Calumet River basin Only six (4%) of the nests were parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbird (three Bobolink, two Eastern Meadowlark, and one Grasshopper Sparrow); none fledged a Brown-headed Cowbird chick. Grassland bird productivity in warm season grass fields in Southwest Wiscon...
Brown recluse spiders are commonly found in warm climates in the central and southern United States. The spiders make homes in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Is...
Zoology Influence of parental provisioning and brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) parasitism on bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) nestling mass UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY Robert K. Murphy SkipperBen ReynoldsPrior to fledging, many factors work to shape altricial nestling quality, which in ...
Daniel Livingston is a friend from my Tuscaloosa years whose delicate and intricate raku pieces have been added to my collection over the years. During a move, I dropped and broke one of my favorite Livingston pieces but gathered up the delicate shards and lined them around a plant in a flo...
In the meantime, he became drawn40 into the drama that was unfolding in the Kansas Territory. In 1854, the infamous41 Kansas-Nebraska Act opened the western territories to slavery. The next year, Brown followed three of his sons to Kansas, hoping to do whatever he could to prevent the ...
...more spot art from James Thurber in the "Goings On About Town" section... ...and Thurber again with some alarming news for a potential suitor... ...Rea Irvin kicked off his series, "Our Native Birds"... ...a famed advertising agency launched a new door-to-door survey, per Pe...
Any of various blackbirds of the genusMolothrus,especially the common North American speciesM. ater,that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and are often seen accompanying herds of grazing cattle. [From their habit of staying with cattle.] ...