ed Meee UD UB ON) (BU iL ket TN 5 
Twenty acres of native and planted canopy, both coniferous and de- 
iduous, are present in five widely scattered locations. Six acres are in an 
pen canopy of large, mature bur oaks at the extreme northern end of the 
astern unit, with an understory of tartarian honeysuckle, raspberry, blue- 
rass spp., and wheatgrass spp. The remaining wooded acres are planted 
a hedge-row fashion to white and red pine, douglas fir, and eastern red 
edar to provide escape routes for game birds. 
Six acres are grazed. Four acres are open with scattered, young, slip- 
ery elm, bluegrass spp., wild carrot, etc., and 13 acres are occupied by 
uildings, barns, lawns, and herbaceous, weedy growth. 
The remainder of the 610 acres (7 acres) consists of 4.5 miles of interior 
oads. 
Forty-six species of birds seen during the weekly counts of the calendar 
ear of 1967, but which were seen briefly or presented too few observations 
9 determine habitat type(s), are: 
Red-necked grebe, yellow-crowned night heron, American bittern, black 
uck, pintail, green-winged teal, baldpate, redhead, lesser scaup, American 
verganser, Cooper’s hawk, sandhill crane, Virginia rail, common: gallinule, 
slitary sandpiper, greater yellowlegs, least sandpiper, ring-billed gull, black 
arn, screech owl, great horned owl, long-eared owl, yellow-bellied fly- 
atcher, olive-sided flycatcher, winter wren, Carolina wren, mockingbird, 
rey-cheeked thrush, veery, yellow-throated vireo, warbling vireo, black 
nd white warbler, prothonotary warbler, blue-winged warbler, orange- 
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Fox River Central Eastern 
Now Species Unit Unit Unit 
1 Grebe, Pied-billed x Be - 
2 Heron, Great Blue x+ X+ - 
“ lleron, Green x x* - 
4 Heron, Black-crowned Night xe x - 
5 Goose, Canada x* x x 
6 Teal, Blue-winged xe X - 
7 Duck, Mallard xs x x 
8 Duck, Wood x* x - 
9 Duck, Ring-necked x xe - 
10 Goldeneye, American x xx - 
11 Hawk, Sharp-shinned x x - 
12 Hawk, Red-tailed x pe x 
13 llawk, Red-shouldered x x* xe 
14 Hawk, Broad-winged x xe me 
15 liawk, Rough-legged ae 5 x* 
16 Hawk, Marsh x - pee 
17 Osprey x+ x+ = 
18 Falcon, Peregrine - X+ X+ 
19 Hawk, Sparrow i x 2 
20 Quail, Bobwhite x ce x 
21 Partridgee, Chukar - x pate 
22 Pheasant, Ring-necked Xx x x 
23 Turkey, McGraw Wild - y Sd - 
24 Coot, American x oa - 
25 Killdeer Re x* = 
