Bird Specimen from Wolf and Hyde Lakes

Date Created: 1890 - 1922

Source: Field Museum

Media Type: Object

Description:

A tray with an assortment of bird specimen collected from Wolf and Hyde Lakes between 1890 and the 1920s by collectors including H.B. Conover and H. Stoddard. Birds include the Black-crowned night heron, the Least Bittern, a Red Knot (canutus canutus), two short-billed Dowitchers (limnodromus griseus), and more.

Hyde Lake was a small lake connected and adjacent to Wolf Lake (near the site of what would become Republic Steel). It was filled in and no longer exists.

Thank you to Senior Conservationist Ecologist Doug Stotz at the Field Museum for access to their Bird Collection.

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Environment Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands Other Recreation 1900-1919 (WWI Era) Pre-1900 Hegewisch Object