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A relative of the Greater Roadrunner, the Yellow-billed cuckoo is also called the Raincrow or Stormcrow because its call heralds the coming of summer rains.
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All text from The Center for Biological Diversity
A relative of the Greater Roadrunner, the Yellow-billed cuckoo is also called the Raincrow or Stormcrow because its call heralds the coming of summer rains.
Dear SHARKFORUM Members:
The Shedd Aquarium invites you to witness a true feeding frenzy. Only in this case, it’s not the chummed waters that have the locals so excited. Rather, it’s hundreds of works of art, donated by the area’s finest artists and galleries for our first annual “Art Sharks” fundraising event, to be held on Friday, February 8, 2008. The Shedd invites all SHARKFORUM members to participate in Art Sharks at by donating an original piece of art work.
Continue reading Calling All Sharks.
In 1811, near the end of his life, poet, ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator Alexander Wilson named this common North American warbler after observing it for the first time in the branches of a Mississippi magnolia tree. This bird, which breeds in spruce trees near the Canadian border of the United States and in Canada, is commonly called the Black and Yellow Warbler.
Continue reading Alexander Wilson's Magnolia Warbler.
231 box only for JAWS. from the movie. "Super Scenes" series. 1975. This is the one with the giant shark attacking Frogman inside his shark cage. This is the BOX only - no kit. great for display. mint. 25.00
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A kind of woodpecker, the yellow bellied sapsucker harvests sap from trees for food, as well as the insects the sap they tap attracts. The holes these birds make appear as unmistakable horizontal lines of dots that can illustrate the entire trunk of a tree. They manage the trees they use, like any conscientious user of natural resources.
Continue reading Yellow Bellied Sapsucker.
The male woodcock’s courtship flight is spectacular to behold. At sunset he flies to the singing grounds and gives an insect-like “peent” call.
Continue reading Flight of the Woodcock.
Photo of Ed Paschke by John Reilly. Photo of Paul Carroll by Sheldon Goldstein.
"The Cavalcade of Hats"
Talking with Ed Paschke about Paul Carroll
By KC Clarke
I called Ed Paschke during the summer of 2001 to ask if he'd get together with me to share some of his memories about Paul Carroll: poet, publisher of Big Table magazine (the archive of which is at the University of Chicago Library), Big Table Books, founder of The Program for Writers at the University of Illinois Chicago, and The Poetry Center, Inc. at the Museum of Contemporary Art . Ed invited me to his Howard Street Studio, and for most of the time we talked, he worked on a painting.
Continue reading Paschke on Carroll on Paschke.
Thermal updraft sucking things that soar
into the frozen vortex of thunderstorms.
faux angel, Mary Poppins Harpy.
Continue reading The Devourer.
Stormcrow by ken clarke
EELS by ken clarke
Calling All Sharks by ken clarke
Alexander Wilson's Magnolia Warbler by ken clarke
This is the BOX only - no kit. (No kit??? Darn!) by ken clarke
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker by ken clarke
Flight of the Woodcock by ken clarke
City Birds: 11 Alive, 2 Dead by ken clarke
Paschke on Carroll on Paschke by ken clarke
The Devourer by ken clarke
"I have wasted my life." by ken clarke
