A Painter’s Park Creatures
Mouse over a creature to see its name. Click on the creature for a chance to hear its song and read about it. Details and credits below.
Double-crested Cormorant
Black Oystercatcher
California Ground Squirrel
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lesser Goldfinch
American Crow
Northern Mockingbird
White-crowned Sparrow
Black Phoebe
Song Sparrow
Monarch Butterfly
Great Egret
Burrowing Owl
Western Bluebird
California Towhee
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Pipit
House Finch
Anna's Hummingbird
Mallard
Western Gull
Red-winged Blackbird
Mourning Dove
Western Meadowlark
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Long-horned Bee
Artist Bill Reynolds of Minnesota made this painting of selected creatures in our park at the invitation of the Chavez Park Conservancy. He visited here and walked the park several times in composing this artwork. Major credit for initiating, coordinating and curating the artwork goes to Emilie Keas of Berkeley, a longtime park visitor. We are grateful to the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and its contributors for the use of about a dozen birdsong audio files. The remaining audio files were recorded here in the park. To see more bird species, see the Bird List here. For more bugs, see the Bug List. Or check out every post about wild mammals in the park. Currently we lack in-park photos of the Dark-eyed Junco and the Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Please contribute such photos if you have them.
What a treat! I’d seen the Minnesota painting and had felt rather jealous. How wonderful we now have one of our own! Thanks so much to everyone involved, and major congratulations.
Great work of art.Congratulations to all