Identifier: birdsnatureinnat04unse (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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ght differences, the bird maybe said to visit all parts of the United States in its migration. It is, however, farmore common on the coast than in the interior, and formerly it visited the Atlan-tic shore in mulitudes. The brown-back, however, is one of the most unsuspiciousof our shorebirds, and comes to wooden decoys with the utmost readiness. Evenafter a flock is decimated and the dead and dying cover the ground, the survivorswill return again to the fatal spot. No wonder that the multitudes spoken ofby many earlier writers no longer visit our shores. There is every reason tobelieve that the absolute prohibition of the shooting of this bird for a term ofyears will do much toward rehabilitating the species. Then, with the prohibi-tion of spring shooting and with a small bag limit, it may be possible to retainthe brown-back on the list of game birds. But sportsmen may rest assuredthat anything short of drastic measures will be followed by the extermination ofthis important wader. 634
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The Chipping Sparrow By John James Audubon Few birds are more common throughout the United States than this gentleand harmless little finch. It inhabits the towns, villages, orchards, gardens, bor-ders of fields and prairie grounds. Abundant in the whole of the middle Statesduring spring, summer and autumn, it removes to the southern parts to spendthe winter, and there you may meet with it in flocks almost anywhere, even in theopen woods. So social is it in its character that you see it at that season in company withthe Song Sparrow, the White-throated, the Savannah and the Field Sparrows, andalmost every other species of the genus. The sandy roads exposed to the sunsrays are daily visited by it. There, or among the tall grasses of our old fields, itsearches for food, seeking seeds, small berries and insects of various kinds.Should the weather be cold it enters the barnyard, and even presents itself in thepiazza. It reaches Louisiana, the Carolinas and other southern districts inNovem

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