Identifier: birdlifeguidetos00chapman (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e,they are silent. It is difficult to explain the differencesbetween these and other Hawks with sufficient clearnessto prevent ones killing the wrong kind, but if the farmerwill withhold his judgment against Hawks in general,and shoot only those that visit his poultry yard, he willnot go far astray. Coopers Hawk resembles the Sharp-shinned in color, but is about four inches longer, and its outer tail-feathers are about half an inch shorter than the p r aw , middle ones instead of beino- of equal Acapiter <-(iiip, n. <? i length. With the preceding species itmay be known by its slender form, long tail, compara-tively short wings, and long, thin tarsi or legs. The Chinese and Japanese train Cormorants to fish American Osprey, ^*^^ *1^^™ ^^^* ^^^ services of these birds Pandion luiiiiutas would soou 1)6 at a discouut if the caroimensis. Qsprey could bc iuduced to work for a Plate XVIII r J master. What an inspiring sight it isto see one plunge from the air upon its prey ! One can
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Plate XVII. SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.Leugth of male, 11-25 inches; of female, ISSO inches. Adult, upper partsslaty gray ; under parts white and rusty brown. Young, upper parts black-ish brown ; under parts white, streaked with rusty brown. 123 12-i OWLS. sonietimes hear the splash half a mile or more, and thebird is quite concealed by the spray. It is a mao-nifi-cent performance, and when, after shaking the water fromhis plumage, he rises into the air, I am always tempted toapplaud. The Osprey, or Fish Hawk, as he is also called, adheresclosely to a finny diet; neither flesh nor fowl appears onhis nu/iu, and he is consequently a migratory bird, com-ing in Ap)-il when the ice has melted and remaining untilOctober. In favorable localities he nests in colonies, re-turning year after year to the same nest. One master, it is true, the Osprey has, though hemakes a most unwilling servant. The Bald - headedEagle is often an appreciative observer of the Ospreys Bald Eaele piscatorial powers, which s

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