Hermit Thrush

Common Name: Hermit Thrush

Scientific Name: Catharus guttatus

Range: This bird breeds from central Alaska east and south to California and Virgina. It spends its winters from southern New England to the south.

Habitat: The Hermit Thrush prefers mixed forests, coniferous forests, sphagnum bogs, pine barrens, and thickets.

Unlike other thrushes in this family, the Hermit Thrush often spends its winters in the United States.

Birds of Oklahoma. Web. 22 Feb 2011.
      http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/The above photo was taken by the bloggers, while the information was from the above website.

Red-tailed Hawk

Common Name: Red-tailed Hawk

Scientific Name: Buteo jamaicensis

Range: The Red-tailed Hawk is found in Alaska and Canada south to Panama.

Habitat: It is found in open country, woodlands, prairie groves, mountains, plains, farmlands, and roadsides.

The Red-tailed Hawk soars on thermals and updrafts. The above photo was taken on the North 40 by the bloggers.

Bell's Vireo

Common Name: Bell's Vireo

Scientific Name: Vireo bellii

Range: This bird breeds from southern California, Colorado, Dakotas, and southward Indiana.

Habitat: It prefers forests undergrowth, streamside thickets, woodland edges, and brushy fields.

The above picture was taken on the North 40.

Mallard

Common Name: Mallard

Scientific Name: Anas platyrhynchos

Range: The Mallard breeds from Alaska, Canada southward to Texas. It spends its winters throughout the U.S. and Central America.

Habitat: They are found near shallow fresh or brackish water in a variety of habitats, including marshes, swamps, wetlands, ponds and lakes.

They are abundant throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The above photo was taken in one of the North 40 ponds.

Birds of Oklahoma. Web. 22 Feb 2011.
      http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/
Just the text was taken from the website above, the photo was taken by the bloggers.

Northern Cardinal

Common Name: Northern Cardinal

Scientific Name: Cardinalis cardinalis

Range: This bird lives in eastern U.S. and in the south down to the Gulf Coast.

Habitat: The Cardinal lives near woodland edges, fields, thickets, brushy undergrowth, suburbs, gardens, feeders with sunflower seeds, swamps, desert washes, and riparian areas.

These birds are very common in the east. The above pictures were taken on the North 40.

Birds of Oklahoma. Web. 22 Feb 2011.
      http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/

The facts above were taken from this website, but the picture was taken by the bloggers.

American Robin

Common Name: American Robin

Scientific Name: Turdus migratorinus

Range: The Robin breeds from Alaska east across southern continent. It spends its winters north to British Columbia and Newfoundland.

Habitat: Common and widespread in suburbs, parks, moist woodlands, swamps, gardens, hedges, forest edges, lawns, pastures and orchards.

The birds often nest close to human structures. The above picture was taken on the North 40.

Birds of Oklahoma. Web. 22 Feb 2011.
      http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/
The text was from the above website, but the picture was taken by the bloggers.

Field Sparrow

Common Name: Field Sparrow

Scientific Name: Spizella pusilla

Range: This bird typically breeds from northern North Dakota, central Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and central New England to southern Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, central Texas and western Colorado. The birds spend their winters south of the Gulf of Mexico.

Habitat: The birds prefer abandoned fields and pastures overgrown with weeds, scattered bushes and small saplings.

The pictures above were taken on the North 40 the top picture the bird can easily be seen but hard to identify, but the bottom picture the bird is easy to identify but difficult to find.