Birds and nature in natural colors - being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada (1913) (14754947152)

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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada

Year: 1913 (1910s)

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Subjects: Birds -- North America

Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of theirfriends be needed to assure the safety of the small remnant of this species andits kindred. The Common Tern, often called Wilsons tern, sea swallow, red shank,summer gull and mackerel, is often confused with arctic tern and Forsters tern.This beautiful little sea swallow was first reported by Wilson, one of our earliestornithologists. Formerly abundant, this bird is now threatened with extinctionunless protected from plumage and tgg hunters. These terns perform extensivemigrations, passing the winter months on the coasts of South America, oftenfar below the equator. In summer they may be found breeding on the islandsof the Great Lakes in company with herring gulls and Caspian terns. The birds are as agile on the wing as our barn swallow, and capture manyflying insects. They also feed upon marine life, but refrain from playing therole of scavenger, leaving the gulls to devour any decaying animal matter. Hundreds of terns may be found nesting together, depositing their three 280

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eggs in a carelessly constructed nest of dry grass on the pebbly beach or rockyprojections just above high water mark. Quite a commotion prevails when thenaturalist intrudes upon their breeding grounds; the birds rise like a cloud andfly about in majestic circles, screaming persistently until the trespasser leaves.Early in June three eggs are laid, varying greatly in shape and color, thebackground is light green, buffy or drab, spotted and blotched with variousshades of brown and lilac. The young are able to care for themselves as soonas hatched. White-Throated Sparrow (ZonotncUa aihicoius) Length: About 6% inches. The white throat and yellow before the eyeare its distinguishing colors. Range: Over most of eastern North America. Breeds in much of Canadasouth to southern Montana, central Minnesota, central Wisconsin, and in themountains of northern Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts; winterssouth of the Ohio. This is one of the bird lovers favorites, as well it may be. Its beauti

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