Identifier: birdloreas12nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Summary of Observations on the Hermit Thrush 1905.—A))ril 23, First seen; )May 27, Incubating four eggs; June 27, Incubat-ing four eggs. 1906.—May 21, First seen; July 9, Incubating four eggs. 1907.—April 27, First heard; June 14, Incubating three eggs; June 15,Incubating three eggs; June 23, Nest destroyed; June 23, A nest completed—three eggs later; July 21, Bird incubating three eggs. 1908.—April 23, Saw two Thrushes; June 2, Bird incubating four eggs;June 4, Bird incubating four eggs; June 8, Three large birds about ten days old.July 3, Bird incubating two eggs; October 25, Last seen; August 14, Last heardin song. 1909.—April 20, First heard; May 26, Nest containing two eggs, four thefollowing day; August 11, Nest containing three birds, two days old, judged;August 23, Bird incubating three eggs, hatched August 27, left the nest Septem-ber 8; August 4, In full song; August 14, Last heard singing; voice thin; October31, Last seen; November 6, Last responded to my call.
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HAWK OWL Photographed from nature by A, B. Reed, of the Boston Traveler, at Brooklinc, Mass. about January 25, 1910 (104) Between the Tracks By GERALD ALAN ABBOTT With a photograph by the author DURING the spring migration, Waders patrol the beach along MuskratCreek. Twittering and waltzing, the American Dunlins, Solitary andSpotted Sandpipers, track nervously over the mud-bars in search ofanimal life. Four hundred yards to the south, the slough grass affords ampleprotection for those peculiarly retiring birds, the Rails. Occasionally theyexpose themselves while passing from one clump of vegetation to another. Theirbroad footholds, caused by the spread of three lengthy toes, enable them to treadover treacherous places too shaky for man. Between the tracks is a growth of sumach, willow, alder, hazel and briar.This is a rendezvous for that Owl among Snipe, the Woodcock. Dozensof these Bog-suckers are in this undergrowth every March and October. Manyare transients, making their summer ho

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