Connecting the environment of the ancient past with the natural and cultural history of yesterday and today.















 

 

Birding at the Falls

Plovers, Killdeer and American Avocet

  

                   American Golden Plover on Fossil beds                      Semipalmated Plover on Fossil beds

Garrick Fields Photos

   

                  Killdeer Conference - Kathy Dennis Photo                            Killdeer - Garrick Fields Photo

      

        American Avocet on outer fossil beds August 7, 2008          Avocet among Ring-billed Gulls October 2, 2007

Photos Alan Goldstein / IDNR Falls of the Ohio State Park

        

               American Avocets and Great Blue Heron                          American Avocets* and American Litter**

Photos Alan Goldstein / IDNR Falls of the Ohio State Park July 16, 2010

* An occasional visitor

** An all too common occurrence

Created February 12, 2010, Updated July 19, 2010