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On Sunday the group re-assembled at 7:30 a.m. in the Palmer School 
Cafeteria, Davenport, for breakfast, and then started on the field trip. It 
was a raw, cold, cloudy day, with snow and sleet falling at intervals, but 
51 persons turned out in 16 cars. The caravan drove along the Mississippi 
to Clinton, Iowa, crossed to the Illinois side, and proceeded through Savan- 
na to the Palisades State Park, stopping often to observe birds along the 
route. At 2:00 p.m. the group met in the Palisades to compare notes and 
add up the birds seen by all persons in the party. The total reached 98 
species! The Chicago members then headed for home, driving in and out 
of snowstorms all the way. 
We are indebted to Elton Fawks and Peter C. Petersen, Jr., Field Trip 
Chairman, for the following list of birds seen. Rarities are starred: 
Common Loon 
Pied-billed Grebe 
*White Pelican 
Double-Crested Cormorant 
Great Blue Heron 
American Egret 
American Bittern 
Mallard 
Black Duck 
Gadwall 
Baldpate 
Pintail 
Green-winged Teal 
Blue-Winged Teal 
Shoveller 
Wood Duck 
Redhead 
Ring-necked Duck 
Canvas-back 
Lesser Seaup Duck 
Bufflehead 
Ruddy Duck 
American Merganser 
Red-breasted Merganser 
Cooper’s Hawk 
Red-tailed Hawk 
*Krider’s Red-tailed Hawk 
Red-shouldered Hawk 
Broad-winged Hawk 
Rough-legged Hawk 
Marsh Hawk 
*Duck Hawk 
*Pigeon Hawk 
Sparrow Hawk 
Bob-white 
American Coot 
Killdeer 
Wilson’s Snipe 
Spotted Sandpiper 
Solitary Sandpiper 
Greater Yellow-legs 
Lesser Yellow-legs 
Pectoral Sandpiper 
Red-backed Sandpiper 
*Hudsonian Godwit 
Herring Gull 
Ring-billed Gull 
Common Tern 
Mourning Dove 
Relted Kingfisher 
Flicker 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Red-headed Woodpecker 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Hairy Woodpecker 
Downy Woodpecker 
Phoebe 
Prairie Horned Lark 
Tree Swallow 
Rarn Swallow 
Purple Martin 
Blue Jay 
American Crow 
Black-capped Chickadee 
Tufted Titmouse 
White-breasted Nuthatch 
Brown Creeper 
House Wren 
Brown Thrasher 
Robin 
Hermit Thrush 
Bluebird 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
Cedar Waxwing 
Migrant Shrike 
Starling 
Myrtle Warbler 
House Sparrow 
Eastern Meadowlark 
Western Meadowlark 
Red-winged Blackbird 
Rusty Blackbird 
Bronzed Grackle 
Cowbird 
Cardinal 
Goldfinch 
Towhee 
Savannah Sparrow 
Vesper Sparrow 
Slate-Colored Junco 
Tree Sparrow 
Chipping Sparrow 
Field Sparrow 
White-throated Sparrow 
Fox Sparrow 
Swamp Sparrow 
Song Sparrow 
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Sereen Tours in Review 
LAST SEASON’S AUDUBON Screen Tour lectures were memorable and re- 
freshing. The October, 1952 program, “Western Discovery,” by Mrs. 
Laurel Reynolds, was an entertaining movie of the wildlife found by Mrs. 
Reynolds and her naturalist husband on the Western coast of the continent. 
Howard Cleaves presented “Animals Unaware” in the January program; 
his was a humorous, friendly lecture, especially entertaining to the many 
junior members in the audience. In February Walter Shackleton described 
“Oddities in Nature,” and he revealed many curious facts about the living 
creatures about us, from the metamorphosis of the caterpillar to the nest- 
ing habits of our bird neighbors. 
