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Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae. The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
The National Park Service published her last substantial work, Among the Birds of Grand Canyon National Park, in 1939, when Merriam was 76 years old. [49] She also received a number of honors, beginning in 1929, when the American Ornithologists' Union elected Merriam their first female Fellow.
Elzada Clover (1897–1980) was an American botanist who was the first to catalog plant life in the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River.She and Lois Jotter became the first two women to raft the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
The group used Jotter and Clover's plant list from 1938 as the basis of their work to restore native species destroyed by the Glen Canyon Dam. [3] Jotter died of congestive heart failure on April 30, 2013 in Greensboro, NC. At the time of her death at age 99, Jotter was the last surviving member of the 1938 Grand Canyon expedition.
The body of a 33-year-old woman who was swept away in flash flooding at the Grand Canyon has been discovered, according to the National Park Service. Chenoa Nickerson of Gilbert, Arizona, had been ...
The mountain bluebird is the state bird of Idaho. This list of birds of Idaho includes species documented in the U.S. state of Idaho and accepted by the Idaho Bird Records Committee (IBRC). As of January 2022, there were 433 species on the official list. One additional species is considered hypothetical. Of the 433, 180 are review species in part or all of the state.(see note) [notes 1] Eight ...
A 20-year-old woman's body was found at the Grand Canyon on Tuesday after days of searching for her, officials said Thursday. Leticia A. Castillo's death was the third one reported at the national ...
A woman is missing after a flash flood stranded several hikers in the Grand Canyon. The flooding hit Havasu Creek around 1:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, the National Park Service said in a news ...