Additional Kane County highlights: spotted towhee and yellow-crowned night heron in Aurora, white-winged dove in Kaneville and a backyard
rufous hummingbird in Elgin.
The
Rufous hummingbird travels the farthest north of any other hummingbird during migration, from Mexico to Alaska.
The most notable bird at this festival is the
Rufous hummingbird, who begins arriving in Ketchikan in mid-March.
SCIENCE: Other animals described as rufous: the great rufous woodcreeper (South America), the
rufous hummingbird (North America), the rufous owl (Australia), and the rufous hare-wallaby (Australia).
01) Clay-colored sparrow Spizella pallida 0 (0) Gray flycatcher Empidonax wrightii 0 (0) Hammond's flycatcher Empidonax hammondii 0 (0) Lincoln's sparrow Melospiza lincolnii 0 (0) Plumbeous vireo Vireo plumbeus 0 (0)
Rufous hummingbird Selasphorus rufus 0 (0) Unknown tanager -- 0 (0) Species NS ND Wilson's warbler * 8.
The doddle features a fluttering
Rufous Hummingbird hovering over two flowers that make up the double-o in 'Google and when it is clicked and later changes to a hardworking dung-beetle rolling a manure ball around five times its size, the Daily Express reported.
The Doodle begins with the
Rufous hummingbird hovering over flowers and with mouse-over gesture, a text "The
Rufous Hummingbird wishes you a happy Earth Day 2014
Google's animated Earth Day 2014 doodle feature creatures like Moon jellyfish, puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon, Japanese macaque, and the
rufous hummingbird.
These birds have earned the unfortunate distinction of a spot on Audubon's list: American Bittern, Black-throated Sparrow, Boreal Chickadee, Common Grackle, Common Tern, Eastern Meadowlark, Evening Grosbeak, Field Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Greater Scaup, Horned Lark, Lark Sparrow, Little Blue Heron, Loggerhead Shrike, Northern Bobwhite, Northern Pintail, Ruffed Grouse,
Rufous Hummingbird, Snow Bunting and Whip-poor-will.
The Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons, the Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostrae, the Bewick's Wren Tryomanes bewickii, the Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus, the Empidonax flycather, the Nasvhville Warbler Vermivora ruficapilla, the Violet-crowned Hummingbird Amazilia violiceps and the
Rufous Hummingbird Selasphoros rufus were commonest in Ipomoea/small-leaved forests (Table 3), while the Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris, the Canyon Towhee Pipilo fuscus, the Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata also common in small-leaved tree forest) were equally or more abundant in mixed woodlands (Table 3).
Among the non-listed species we're studying are the
rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica), and monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
The
rufous hummingbird ignores the nosy humans charting its dips and dives from a hushed corner of Paton's overgrown backyard.