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Summer 2001 cover
Summer 2001

Print cover, above: Trendy compound eyes adorn a rare fly. Such bugs inspired writer Edwin Way Teale (Dune Boy) to his life's work. Photo by Rob Curtis/The Early Birder.

 

 

Summer 2001

We The People
Editor's Note. By Debra Shore.

Photo: blackbird outlinedLetters to the Editor

The Bird That Captured Navy Pier
A red-winged blackbird defends his harem by the Ferris wheel — and nature triumphs.
By Stephen Packard.

Big Votes for Green Towns
Homer Glen will be a new species of town.
And many old towns have the same idea. By Debra Shore.

Birds of the Windy City
Book Review
. By Beverly McClellan.

Reading Pictures
Invaders from Weedland. By Stephen Packard.

Meet your neighbors

Baltimore Checkerspot: gossamer tapestry

Valerie Spale: Prairie Bulldog

Ron Olsen: Building a Better Bird Box

Prairie Dropseed: Highly Conservative

 

 

Bronze copper butterfly

Little Bugs on the Prairie
Goose Lake Prairie photographs by Donna Krischan.

Photo: Teale


  Dune Boy. Edwin Way Teale: Backyard explorer becomes influential author. By Joan Gibb Engel.

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