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Swarth was born in Chicago, Illinois. During his childhood, he was interested in birds and natural history.
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(Contents: The National Monuments * Introduction * Bird Li...)
Contents: The National Monuments * Introduction * Bird Life of the Papago Saguaro National Monument contrasted with that of the adjoining cultivated regions * Birds of the Giant Cactus * Birds of Roosevelt Lake and the Tonto National Monument * Birds of the Sierra Ancha * General account of some birds of the region: Palmer Thrasher, Cactus Wren, Verdin, Western Kingbird, Dwarf Cowbird, Desert Sparrow, Phainopepla, Zone-tailed Hawk, Texas Nighthawk, Arizona Crested Flycatcher, Desert Quail, White-winged Dove, INca Dove, Mearns Gilded Flicker, Gila Woodpecker, Farallon Cormorant, Pallid Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron * Birds seen on Papago Saguaro National Monument, Ariz., May 30 to June 4, 1917 * Birds seen at and near Tempe, May 30 to June 4, 1917 * Birds seen in vicinity of Roosevelt Lake, June 5 to 11 and July 2 to 5, 1917 * Birds seen in the Sierra Ancha, June 11 to July 2, 1917 * Birds seen at Globe, July 5 to 7, 1917 * Index.
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Excerpt from Birds of the Papago Saguaro National Monument: And the Neighboring Region Arizona A few miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, between that city and the village of Tempe, lies the Papago Saguaro National Monument, a tract of land set aside primarily to conserve certain types of desert vegetation in a region that is rapidly changing in appearance through increased cultivation of the soil. Some 80 miles from Phoenix, to the northeast, is the Tonto National Monument, containing two groups of cliff dwellings; and adjoining the latter is the Roosevelt Bird Reservation, encircling the shores of Roosevelt Lake. These several points are linked together by the scenic highway known as "the Apache Trail," a road extending between Phoenix and Globe. The purpose of the present publication is to direct attention to some of the interesting features of the bird life of this region - a section which, although attracting increasing numbers of visitors each year, has not generally been regarded as including many bird species among its attractions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Swarth was born in Chicago, Illinois. During his childhood, he was interested in birds and natural history.
He began collecting birds in 1894 and attended Baptist College, Los Angeles after grammar school.
In 1891, his family moved to Los Los Angeles In 1896, he joined the first extended natural history collecting expedition in Arizona. His 1914 A Distributed List of the Birds of Arizona is recognized as the first attempt to catalog all the birds of the state.
Swarth worked at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1905 to 1908, at the University of California Berkeley from 1908 to 1927, and at the California Academy of Sciences starting in 1927.
Swarth joined the Cooper Ornithological Club (now the Cooper Ornithological Society) in 1897 and remained a member until his death. He died of a heart ailment at Berkeley, California on October 22, 1935.
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He was a member of the American Ornithologists" Union and the British Ornithologists" Union.