42 BIRDS OF SWOPE PARK 



mostly dry upland, and lacks the rare beauty of Shiloh 

 Hollow. It is rather densely wooded and quite secluded; few 

 people caring to penetrate through the tangle of weeds and 

 brush beneath the scraggly black oak trees. If its boundaries 

 could but be made to include Shiloh Hollow and then the 

 whole made into a bird sanctuary, it might mean the preser- 

 vation of species of birds for Kansas City that otherwise, 

 sooner or later, are certain to be driven away. 



The driveway indicated on the map was not yet built at 

 the time the census was made. 



The List — Section Number 8. 



Chickadee 13 Kentucky Warbler 2 



Indigo Bunting 12 Bluebird 2 



Tufted Titmouse 11 Cooper's Hawk 



Red-eyed Vireo 7 Mourning Dove 



Towhee 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 



Downy Woodpecker 4 Wood Peewee 



Goldfinch 4 Kingbird 



Acadian Flycatcher 3 Chipping Sparrow 



Cardinal 3 Blue-win<jed Warbler 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Parula Warbler 



Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Cerulean Warbler 



Crow 2 Black-and-white Warbler .... 



Cowbird 2 Wood Thrush 



Purple Martin 2 Hummingbird 



Total Species, 28; Male Birds 88 



The Cooper's Hawk was found on its nest high up among 

 the upper branches of a dead oak. Seeing me, it left its nest 

 and swooped directly toward me. but veered off overhead, ut- 

 tering a few chuckling notes. 



