Identifier: cu31924000070809 (find matches)
Title: Bird studies for home and school; sixty common birds, their habits and haunts
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: De Groat, Herman C
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Buffalo, N. Y., Herman C. De Groat
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ashes off a few feetafter a gnat, fly or bug which it captures with a snap of thebill. Turning quickly with a flourish, it is back again on thesame perch in a moment. Here it will again settle into a con-dition of seeming indifference to everything about it; but it is,nevertheless, thoroughly awake, for in the next instant, it is offagain for another hapless insect. This feat is repeated manytimes from the same spot hour after hour. Indeed, when oneof these birds has found a branch to its liking, it may perchupon it day after day to w^atch for insects. While waiting, it utters a low plaintive cry of pee-a-wee,pee-a-wee, which is long drawn out. This is among the firstbird-notes at daybreak and the last at nightfall. Even in theheat of noonday when most other birds are silent, the sweet,sad song of the Pewee is heard. The bird is sometimes foundin a shady orchard but its favorite home is the deep woodswhere it usually nests. After wintering in Central America, it is a late migrant, 142
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97 WOOD PEWEE.3 Life-size. for it does not reach the North until the end of May. It raisesbut one brood which is not hatched before the last of June. Itremains North until the last of September. BIRD NOTES 143 INDEX Bee-martin Birds, Enemies of .Migrations ofUsefulness of Bittern, American . Blackbird, Red-wingedCow . Bluebird Blue Jay . Bobolink . Bob-white Bull-bat . . . Canary Canary, Wild Catbird Cedar, Wax-wing Cherry-bird Chickadee Contents . Cowbird Creeper, Brown . Crow, American . Directions to Teachers Duck, Mallard . Eagle, Bald . . Eggs .... Flicker . , . Goldfinch, American Goose, Canada . Grackle, Purple . Grouse, Rufifed . PAGE PAGE 126 Gull, Herring .... 48 20 Hairbird 94 13 Hawk, American Sparrow . 76 II Red-tailed ... 32 92 Sharp-shinned . 100 62 Hen 54 82 High-hole 86 56 Hummingbird, Ruby- 38 throated 124 130 Junco 42 46 Kingbird 126 122 Kingfisher, Belted ... 84 120 Lark, Horned .... 64 50 Meadowlark 80 116 Migrations of Birds . . 13 66 Nests 16 66 Nighthawk 122 24

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