Four Photographs of Wayne Clapper Rail Nests and Donald Nicholson's Jeep, Conch Island

Creator

• Donald J. Nicholson

Files

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Creation Date

4-23-1963

Abstract

Four photographs depicting Donald J. Nicholson's Jeep, and nests with eggs belonging to a Wayne's clapper rail (Rallus crepitans waynei) on Conch Island, Florida.

Alt Text

A collage of four black-and-white photographs showing a car in a field and close-ups of plants with small white flowers. The images are arranged on a light-colored background with tape borders.

Keywords

Birds, Birding, Ornithology, Bird nests, Tringa, Scolopacidae, Charadriiformes, Eggs, Clapper rail

Extent

1 scrapbook page with four photographs

Subject: geographic

St. John's County (Fla.); St. Augustine (Fla.); Anastasia Island (Fla.); Conch Island (Fla.)

Physical Collection

Florida Ornithological Society records

Box

46

Folder

18

Media Type

Scrapbooks; Black-and-white photographs

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Note

The note on the back of the photograph reads, "Conch Island, Adjacent to Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, St. John’s County, Florida. Nicholson’s jeep and Charles E. Carter, Oologist, on the Island, where the Willets are found nesting each year. April 23, 1963. Showing nest and 8 eggs of a Wayne’s Clapper Rail found and collected by Carter, with photographs by D. J. Nicholson. Nest in dry ground among knee-high dead grass just as found, and two different shots of same nest and eggs with vegetation parted."

Identifier

fos_images_3829

Recommended Citation

Nicholson, Donald J., "Four Photographs of Wayne Clapper Rail Nests and Donald Nicholson's Jeep, Conch Island" (1963). Florida Ornithological Society - Images. Image 2830.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fos_images/2830