Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 7, 1941
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Swallow City, which resembles an underground air defense system and which is threatened with destruction by recent city council action to level the bank in which it is located, may be saved. Neighborhood residents have launched a move to ask the council to place a fence around the bank instead. Fear that children might be caught in a cave-in while playing in the bank prompted its proposed removal. The holes which perforate the bank are homes of hundreds of swallows. They resemble a network of underground airplane hangers where the birds take off and land at full speed.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 22, 1973
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From Our Pictorial Archives. Ann Arbor 1941. It may be hard to picture this as a scene well inside the city of Ann Arbor, but it wasn't as far in when in the summer of 1941 developers were looking for good building areas for the housing boom destined to be delayed until after World War II. This area on the north side of Arborview Blvd. at the foot of Arbana (Ann Arbor's west side) was known for a time as "Swallow City" because of the flocks of cliff swallows that drilled holes as deep as three feet for their nests. Kids used to try to catch the birds by lying on the bank above and holding their caps over the holes. City Councilmen argued that it was an easy way to slip and make a quick descent to the bottom of the hill, suffering some broken bones in the process. The area now is much farther inside the city, somewhat leveled and covered with homes.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 28, 1948
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Dr. George Miksch Sutton, curator of birds at the University Museum, examines two of the water-color paintings which he has drawn in preparation for a several-volume work on the life histories of Mexico's birds. There are some 600 distinctively Mexican species of birds, and Dr. Sutton hopes to cover the field with about 230 color plates.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 7, 1962
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Special Addition: Robert S. Butsch, associate curator of exhibits, adjusts a name tag at the foot of the newest addition to the University exhibit museum, a golden eagle shot by an unidentified hunter in the Portage Lake area last summer. The wing span measured a little more than six feet. This specimen is only the 14th to be obtained in the state since 1870. It is essentially a western bird. At upper left is an immature bald eagle which has not yet acquired the famed white head feathers that give it its name. The entire exhibit case has just been remodeled and the specimens rearranged.