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March 10Oops The Horned Lark Kansas Ornithological Society June 2010 Vol. 37, No. 2 President’s message From the I hope everyone had a you have ever tried to get a field very birdy spring seeing all hotel room within a 50-mile kinds of lovely warblers, radius of Kansas City during vireos, thrushes and a NASCAR weekend, then shorebirds. Now the doldrums you also know owners hike of summer are coming when I the prices up to three times don’t do as much birding as the normal rate! We decided I’d like. I wish I could bypass to avoid that. Later on we'll the perils of heat, poison ivy, have lodging suggestions ticks and mosquitoes. near the JCCC campus that However, I am glad I signed won't match the cost of a new up for two Breeding Bird engine. Surveys, which give me two See you in October, and in more reasons to get outside. the meantime take Make sure you block out precautions against the perils time on your calendar for our of summer birding. Cheryl fall KOS meeting, October 8- Miller has offered several 10, in Overland Park. suggestions to make your Johnson County Community excursions more enjoyable College will be our host for (see page 13). the paper presentations, banquet and field trips. Nancy Leo Please note that this is not © Cheryl Miller our traditional time slot for President the meeting as a major Joyce Davis, KOS member, birded with the Wichita Audubon Society in south NASCAR event is also Florida in April. The trip included a ferry scheduled that weekend. If ride to the Dry Tortugas. 100 years ago in Kansas KOS Board of By John Schukman In 1910, Charles D. Directors Bunker1 wrote and published an article of his work on lo- •President cating and studying the Nancy Leo, [email protected] Black-capped Vireo (Vireo •Vice-President atricappilla), noting: Chuck Otte, 613 Tamerisk, Junction “In the locality of which City, KS 66441; [email protected] I speak, the canyons were about three hundred and •Corresponding Secretary twenty feet deep, with out- Gregg Friesen, 515 E. 4th, Newton, croppings of gypsum rock KS 67114; [email protected] from bottom to top, with a strong salt stream running at •Membership Development the bottom….The canyon Coordinator walls and gulches leading to Patty Marlett, [email protected] the canyons were studded with clumps of bushes, •Treasurer mostly dog-wood, scrub-oak Terry Mannell, 218 Northridge Drive, Hays, KS 67601; and similar shrubs, forming © Bob Gress [email protected] ideal cover for vireos,…” Having made just a few student at the University of •Business Manager trips to the Red Hills, the habi- Kansas, who later became Sec- Lisa Weeks, 208 Arizona St, tat of Schwartz Canyon (Barber retary of the Smithsonian. Lawrence, KS 66049; County) comes to my mind 1Bunker, C. D. 1910. Habits [email protected] first. Some still aspire to find of the Black-capt Vireo (Vireo but search unsuccessfully for atricapillus). The Condor 12:7- •Editor, KOS Bulletin Black-capped Vireo found in 73. http://tinyurl.com/3afvkz7 Gene Young, Northern Oklahoma this area in the late 19th cen- 2Hall, E. R. 1951. Charles College, 1220 E. Grand Ave., tury. None have been confirmed Dean Bunker, 1870-1948. Uni- Tonkawa, OK 74653-0310; [email protected], since then. Most of Bunker’s versity of Kansas Museum of [email protected] study skins came from Okla- Natural History, Miscellaneous homa, but his collection in- Publication No. 3, pp. 1-11. •Editor, The Horned Lark cludes one specimen from Co- Note: This article is a fascinat- Cheryl K. Miller, manche County taken in 1885. ing biography on Bunker: [email protected] Despite no formal education http://tinyurl.com/2c6yjfh. past grammar school, Bunker •Past-President Max Thompson, 1729 E. 11th Ave., trained many great ornitholo- Statement of non-profit status Winfield, KS 67156; [email protected] gists and was a curator at the and copyright: The Kansas Kansas Museum of Natural Ornithological Society is a 501(c) 3 •Board Members: History. E. Raymond Hall2 organization created for the study, Henry Armknecht, noted that Bunker probably conservation and enjoyment of wild birds. The Horned Lark is the [email protected] would not have published the Michael Andersen, [email protected] vireo article without the help of membership newsletter of the society and all material contained Bill Jensen, [email protected] Alexander Wetmore, a former herein is copyrighted. Mike Rader, [email protected] 2 Spring KOS compilation list KOS members birded American Coot Downy Woodpecker in 11 northcentral counties Black-bellied Plover Hairy Woodpecker and found 173 species May Snowy Plover Northern Flicker 14-16. For a county Semipalmated Plover Eastern Wood-Pewee breakdown of the weekend, Killdeer Acadian Flycatcher visit the KOS website at American Avocet Least Flycatcher http://ksbirds.org. Spotted Sandpiper Eastern Phoebe Solitary Sandpiper Say's Phoebe Canada Goose Greater Yellowlegs Great Crested Flycatcher Wood Duck Willet Western Kingbird Gadwall Lesser Yellowlegs Eastern Kingbird American Wigeon Upland Sandpiper Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Mallard Hudsonian Godwit Loggerhead Shrike Blue-winged Teal Marbled Godwit Bell's Vireo Mourning Warbler Northern Shoveler Sanderling Warbling Vireo Common Yellowthroat Green-winged Teal Semipalmated Sandpiper Red-eyed Vireo Spotted Towhee Canvasback Western Sandpiper Blue Jay Eastern Towhee Redhead Least Sandpiper Black-billed Magpie Chipping Sparrow Lesser Scaup White-rumped Sandpiper American Crow Clay-colored Sparrow Bufflehead Baird's Sandpiper Horned Lark Field Sparrow Common Merganser Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Martin Vesper Sparrow Ruddy Duck Dunlin Tree Swallow Lark Sparrow Northern Bobwhite Stilt Sandpiper Northern Rough-winged Savannah Sparrow Ring-necked Pheasant Short-billed Dowitcher Swallow Grasshopper Sparrow Greater Prairie-Chicken Long-billed Dowitcher Bank Swallow Song Sparrow Wild Turkey Wilson's Phalarope Cliff Swallow Lincoln's Sparrow Common Loon Bonaparte's Gull Barn Swallow Harris's Sparrow Pied-billed Grebe Franklin's Gull Black-capped Chickadee White-crowned Sparrow Eared Grebe Ring-billed Gull White-breasted Nuthatch Summer Tanager Western Grebe Herring Gull Carolina Wren Northern Cardinal American White Pelican Caspian Tern House Wren Rose-breasted Grosbeak Double-crested Cormorant Black Tern Marsh Wren Black-headed Grosbeak Great Blue Heron Common Tern Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue Grosbeak Cattle Egret Forster's Tern Eastern Bluebird Lazuli Bunting Green Heron Rock Pigeon Swainson's Thrush Indigo Bunting Black-crowned Night- Eurasian Collared-Dove American Robin Dickcissel Heron White-winged Dove Gray Catbird Bobolink White-faced Ibis Mourning Dove Northern Mockingbird Red-winged Blackbird Turkey Vulture Barn Owl Brown Thrasher Eastern Meadowlark Osprey Eastern Screech-Owl European Starling Western Meadowlark Bald Eagle Great Horned Owl American Pipit Yellow-headed Blackbird Northern Harrier Burrowing Owl Cedar Waxwing Common Grackle Cooper's Hawk Barred Owl Tennessee Warbler Great-tailed Grackle Swainson's Hawk Common Nighthawk Orange-crowned Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Red-tailed Hawk Common Poorwill Yellow Warbler Orchard Oriole American Kestrel Chimney Swift Chestnut-sided Warbler Baltimore Oriole Virginia Rail Belted Kingfisher Yellow-rumped Warbler House Finch Sora Red-headed Woodpecker American Redstart American Goldfinch Common Moorhen Red-bellied Woodpecker Northern Waterthrush House Sparrow 3 Kansas winter season roundup December 1 - February 28 Mark Corder, compiler What a season. The headliners single day during the Derby/ for this past winter include swans, Belle Plaine CBC on January raptors, a rare woodpecker and, of 6. Pete Janzen reported 67 course, the weather. Heavy snow from Greenwood County on caused the cancellation of several December 22. Christmas Bird Counts and the Merlin and Prairie generally inclement and extended Falcon numbers were off the cold periods probably contributed to chart as well. Sightings of the number of CBC participants the former came from 13 being substantially below the current counties and of the latter decade’s average: 476 versus 543. from 18 counties. The number of individual birds seen Impressive numbers of on CBCs was less than one-half of Golden Eagles, Rough- the 10-year average: 3.3 million legged Hawks (17 on the Webster perhaps as many as seven separate versus 7.1 million. Reservoir CBC), Northern Harriers birds), Northern Goshawk (two), Even though the combined and Ferruginous Hawks warranted Franklin’s Gull (one), Thayer’s Gull CBCs produced only nine swans their inclusion in the winter (four), Lesser Black-backed Gull total, the number of swans seen roundup. (one), Glaucous Gull (seven), during the three-month winter A male Williamson’s Sapsucker Snowy Owl (two), Northern Saw- period was unprecedented. startled Dave Klema on December 5 whet Owl (one), Northern Shrike Trumpeter Swans were reported at Wilson Lake. This was the second (approximately 20), Palm Warbler from 18 counties in extraordinary record for Kansas in 2009 and only (one), Western Tanager (one), Snow numbers starting the first of the fourth ever record. The bird was Bunting (three), Rusty Blackbird December and continuing through observed off and on through the end (808 on the Kanopolis CBC), the end of February. Tundra Swans of February by many observers. Brewer’s Blackbird (1,000+ from were less frequently reported than This is most likely the bird of the four locations) and Lesser Goldfinch Trumpeters but their numbers by year for 2009. (one). comparison to previous years were Gray Catbirds, Northern As it turned out the winter of impressive. Mockingbirds and Brown Thrashers 2009-2010 was not so bad from a Perhaps as a result of the didn’t seem to mind the cold so birder’s perspective. Tough snow cover and an increase in the much as to be gone from the state conditions oftentimes yield good number of, or visibility of voles, altogether. Gray Catbirds were opportunities and good birds. reports of Red-tailed Hawks found on two CBCs and one in mid- Frankly, I thought given the weather approached the incredible.
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