Wide, shallow bird's nest with two white, slightly elongated, eggs inside of it. The characteristics of both the nest shape, clutch size, and egg shape suggest it as the nest of a Mourning Dove.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Zenaida macroura, Morning Dove, ecology, environment
Trunk of smooth sumac tree. Tree trunk in center of image leaning upward toward the right with two horizontal slats of a wooden fence behind and almost adjacent to the tree amidst long bent-over grasses with trees and grassy vegetation in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Rhus glabra, Illinois
Nest and four eggs of a Dickcissel. The small cup-shaped nest is found at the center of the plate surrounded by dense leaves.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Spiza americana, Dickcissel, ecology, environment
Image shows a very large and ornate building at water's edge. Trees on either side of the building and a rock wall along shore in midground at right, water in foreground
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, French Guiana
View of street corner with man standing on corner holding his bike at his side, surrounded by palm trees. Thick vegetation in background. Photo taken looking down on street
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, French Guiana
Trunk of winged sumac tree. Tree trunk branching into Y shape in center of image, with bark in horizontal pattern, amidst underbrush with large stones in foreground and wooded vegetation in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Rhus copallinum, Johnson County, Illinois
Trunk of American elm tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst scattered clumps of vegetation with trees and a fence in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Ulmus americana, DuPage County, Illinois
Trunk of smooth black willow tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst long bent-over grasses with thick woody and grassy vegetation in the left background and grassy vegetation in the right background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Salix nigra, Illinois
Tree trunk in center of image. Tree is crooked and tilts on the diagonal toward the right side of the image. Bark is plated with vertical crevices. Ground is covered with dense growth and trees are visible, in full-leaf in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Tree, Plants
Image shows a dead female mallard (?) hanging upside down with its foot tied to a rope with head and neck of bird lying on table top
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Anas platyrhynchos, Mallard Duck (Female), ecology, environment
Image shows a field with scattered trees, the subject is a tree found at center, may be another example of Cratageus gaultii
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, plants, Crataegus gaultii, Hawthorn, ecology, environment
Nest and eggs of what has been identifies as belonging to a Purple Martin. The nest contains four eggs on nesting material in a wooden box or other structure.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Progne subis, Purple Martin, ecology, environment
Nest and five eggs of Grasshopper Sparrow. Looking down through grasses into nest from above.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Ammodramus savannarum, DuPage, Illinois
Close-up of the leaves and fruit of a type tree from species Cratageus gaultii, photographed against a monochrome background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, DuPage, Cratageus gaultii, Illinois
Image shows a three-toed sloth (locality suggests a Brown-throated Sloth) hanging on wooden blinds near a doorway just inside the door of a building
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, mammals, Bradypus variegatus, Brown-throated Sloth
A group of trees with central tree as subject. Tree at center has a light colored line across trunk toward bottom of plate possibly due to a light shadow or marking.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, DuPage, Illinois
Large prairie/field of grasses with a patchy tree line on the horizon and a black shape (a handkerchief at nest site) at center in midground.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, ecology, environment
Possibly a variety of elm, tree trunk in center of image. Sitting in wooded area with undergrowth, shrubs in foreground at bottom of image. Distinct tree trunks visible along right side of image at plate edge.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Variety of Elm, Tree, Plants
Tree trunk in center of image. Tree tilts on a slight diagonal to the left side of the image. The bark of the tree has deep crevices. There is dense vegetation on the ground and many trees in the background of the image.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Tree, Plants
Tree trunk in center of image with distinct scaling. Trunk stands amongst thick undergrowth and there is a fallen branch on the ground at the foot of the trunk.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Tree, Plants
Image shows the face of a large building with stairs in front and dog lying on its side on sidewalk. Windows are open and people are leaning out of them, perhaps in conversation with one another, or the passerby seen in foreground at right
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, French Guiana
Six Belted Kingfisher nestlings crowded together at center of photo on dirt ground.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Megaceryle alcyon, DuPage, Illinois
Nest and three eggs, and 1 cowbird egg, of the Red-eyed Vireo, Cup-shaped nest found at center surrounded by foliage of tree.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Vireo olivaceus, DuPage, Illinois
Trunk of tuliptree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst fallen leaves; segments of the trunk extend outward at the base; a rope or vine hangs down the right side of trunk and crosses toward the center near the trunk's base; with trees and bushes in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Liriodendron tulipifera, Illinois
Very dense patch of Hollyhocks with trunk of tree at left in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, plants, Alcea sp., Hollyhock, ecology, environment
Nest and three eggs of a Cuckoo. The nest is found at center surrounded by tree leaves.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Coccyzus sp, DuPage, Illinois
Image shows an ocean view of the shoreline of the City of Cayenne. Rocks in foreground, water in midground, and stately buildings on waterfront at left in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Cayenne, French Guiana
Trunk of swamp chestnut oak tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst grasses with wooded vegetation in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Quercus michauxii, DuPage County, Illinois
Image shows a group of crew members and passengers on a boat. Men in image all wearing hats. Mast of ship seen in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Approuague River, French Guiana
Trunk of Carolina silverbell (?) tree. Thin tree trunk with mottled bark leans diagonally in center of image amidst grasses and fallen branches with wooded vegetation in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Halesia carolina, Johnson County, Illinois
Trunk of pawpaw tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst fallen leaves and large-leaved ground cover with wooded vegetation in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Asimina triloba, Pulaski County, Illinois
Nest and nestlings of the Red-Winged Blackbird. Pictured at center nest is found amongst tall thin grasses.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Agelaius phoeniceus, Red-Winged Blackbird, ecology, environment
Trunk of Quercus species, Tree trunk in center of image amidst fallen leaves and grasses and wooded vegetation. Image shows large, rough bark segments.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Quercus, Johnson County, Illinois
A body of water, possibly a river, covered in patchy vegetation in foreground, a bridge in midground, and trees in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, ecology, environment
Nest and two nestlings of the Grasshopper Sparrow. Image looks down through foliage and underbrush into nest found at bottom center.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Ammodramus savannarum, DuPage, Illinois
Two downy Least Bittern nestlings photographed in a small bowl shaped depression draped in cloth in foreground with blurred vegetation in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Lxobrychus exilis, DuPage, Illinois
Tree trunk in center of image, possibly some sort of oak tree, grassy patch near base of tree on right, with a number of smaller trees or saplings in background. Ground is covered with leaves.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Tree, Plants
Trunk of swamp cottonwood tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst tall grasses with wooded vegetation in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Populus heterophylla, Illinois
Trunk of river birch tree. Tree trunk in center of image on ground sloping downward toward the left with a large trunk section extending out from the base toward the left foreground, amidst fallen leaves with wooded and grassy vegetation in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Betula nigra, Illinois
Trunk of shingle oak tree. Tree trunk in center of image on ground sloping downward from left to right amidst low-lying leafy vegetation with wooded and shrubby vegetation in the background.
Topics: Benjamin T. Gault, glass plate negative, Quercus imricaria, Shingle oak tree, Illinois, Chicago...
Trunk of hawthorn tree. Tree trunk in center of image with a large rock in front of it and a smaller rock behind and to the left and a long shadow extending from the base toward the right background, with wooded vegetation in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Cartaegus, Illinois
Trunk of elm tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst fallen leaves with thin-trunked trees in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Ulmus, DuPage County, Illinois
Close-up profile of a young Common Grackle perched on small branch facing right.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Quiscalus quiscula, DuPage, Illinois
Nest and 11 eggs of the King Rail. The loose nest of grasses seen at center containing the 11 speckled eggs.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, DuPage, Rallus eleganus, Illinois
Nest and eggs of Eastern Meadowlark. Nest found toward bottom of frame at center amongst and made out of grasses, nest contains four visible eggs.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Sturnella magna, Eastern Meadowlark, ecology, environment
Seven Belted Kingfisher nestlings crowded together on ground with grasses in background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Megaceryle alcyon, DuPage, Illinois
Trunk of black cherry tree. Tree trunk in center of image amidst grasses with wooded and grassy vegetation in the background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, Prunus serotina, DuPage County, Illinois
Close-up of bird's nest [Short-eared owl] with 13 eggs. Nest is made of grasses and twigs with feathers lining inside of nest
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Asio flammeus, Short-Eared Owl, ecology, environment
Dead Pinnated Grouse (Greater Prairie Chicken) hanging by a rope tied around its foot against a cloth (burlap?) background.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, birds, Tympanuchus cupido, Greater Prairie Chicken, ecology,...
Nest of a Long-billed Marsh Wren. Image shows an oval shaped nest of reeds and grasses amongst cattails and other grasses. Entrance to nest difficult to determine.
Topics: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Benjamin T. Gault, DuPage, Cistothorus palustris, DuPage, Illinois
