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Volume 42, Number 2,
February 1996:
Backyard Birds

Text-only version

ISSUE HOME PAGE

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- what do you need to go birding?
- some common backyard birds
- house finch
- American robin
- house wren
- European starling
- house sparrow
- black-capped chickadee
- northern cardinal
- ruby-throated hummingbird
- blue jay
- gray catbird
- purple martin
- downy woodpecker
- eastern bluebird
- Baltimore oriole
- American goldfinch
- the Kansas winter bird feeder survey
- acknowledgment
- owls

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Backyard Birds
by Marvin Schwilling

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

ISSN: 0022-877X

Published by Emporia State University

Prepared and Issued by The Division of Biological Sciences

Editor: JOHN RICHARD SCHROCK

Editorial Committee: DAVID EDDS, TOM EDDY, GAYLEN NEUFELD

Editors Emeritus: ROBERT BOLES, ROBERT F. CLARKE

Mailing: ROGER FERGUSON

Circulation (this issue): 7300

Press Run: 20,000

Typist: Nancy Gulick

Compilation: JOHN DECKER

Printed by ESU Printing Services

Online edition designed by: TERRI WEAST

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Third class postage paid at Emporia, Kansas. Address all correspondence to Kansas School Naturalist, Division of Biological Sciences, Box 4050, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801-5087. Opinions and perspectives expressed are those of the author(s) and/or editor and do not reflect the official position or endorsement of ESU.

Publication and distribution of this issue was made possible by a grant from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

The text of this issue (and other Kansas School Naturalist issues) is available at http://www.emporia.edu/ksn and may be downloaded for nonprofit educational use; please credit source.

Photo credits: All bird photos, with the exception of the hummingbird and house sparrow photos, were taken by Bob Gress, Director of Wichita Wild with the Wichita Parks Department. Bob is a longtime wildlife photographer who has worked to establish the Great Plains Nature Center. He has also served as co-author or co-photographer for three books: Kansas Wildlife, Kansas Wetlands and Watching Kansas Wildlife. The hummingbird photo was taken by Gene Brehm and the house sparrow photo was taken by Marvin Schwilling.


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