Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1922
Washington Specimen Uses the Street Car as His Particular Means of Transportation. Â Â Â Â Now that spring is here, it may interest bird lovers to know that at least one bird has solved the problem of transportation without the use of wings. Â Â Â Â Birds are famous for their migrations, but hitherto they always have used wings. […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 12, 1922
    The greatest bird gourmand is the vulture of southeast Europe. Seven vultures can strip the carcass of a horse in half an hour. After such a meal, they can only fly a few yards. They stand with puffed-out bodies, drooping wings, and blood-shot eyes, uttering hideous cries.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1922
    At the extreme northerly point of the Shetlands- a place nearer the pole than Petrograd-is a small, lonely hut, where H. Edwardson of London lives every spring with the sea birds as almost sole companions. For 33 years he has occupied this hut from spring to autumn. For many years he has been the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 2, 1908
Buena Park Excited by Murder Among the Fowl of the Air. Â Â Â Â Fashionable Buena Park is excited over the execution of a little English sparrow. In no other city are birds as welcome as in Buena Park. Although Buena Park takes care of its feathered visitors, no scheme has as yet been devised to prevent […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 27, 1922
    News of a remarkable case of bird intelligence comes from Manchester, London Tit-Bits states.     Several people at the Assizes noticed the peculiar behavior of a sparrow which was leaping from one of the chimneys and then falling to the roof as though injured, but nobody appeared to suspect that the bird was a […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 13, 1874
    An exciting contest was witnessed in the Court House yard, on Friday last, between a cat and some robins, that is worth chronicling. A robin had a nest under the north stoop of the Court House, and on Friday her brood of young robins made their first attempt to fly. As one poor, halffledged bird […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 13, 1905
    A human being is a queer animal after all. We eat possums and pay fancy prices for them, yet a vulture will not touch one. During a long season of snow years ago a farmer said the buzzards in his locality were almost starved, and to rest the matter he killed a possum and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1906
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 01/16/1906.     Although 53 years old Earl De Gray still ranks as the greatest game butcher in England, perhaps in the world. He has killed more game than any other living sportsman-amounting, when last computed-to 216,699 head. Comprised in this list were 11,900 pheasants, 89,400 partridges, 45,500 […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1907
Birds Rout Predatory Feline Which Attacks Their Nest. Â Â Â Â Residents of Fayette place, Taupton,Mass., recently witnessed a remarkable battle between “Rags,” a coon cat owned by Mrs. James Brown, and two blue Jays. The jays were the aggressors and the victors. Â Â Â Â Attracted by the scolding of the jays, the residents saw “Rags” sitting on […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, May 23, 1907
    Perhaps the Danes selected the Raven for their standard out of feelings of gratitude, for before the invention of the mariner’s compass they must have found him extremely useful. The only method of determining whether land was near was to let loose a raven. If the bird saw land he sailed away forever; if […]