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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f some habits it isoften called a Creeper, It seldom alights ok the branch of a tree,but like the Creepers, it zigzags up and down the trunk -or hangs from the under side of a limb with perfect ease.It has the Creeper habit too of flitting fcom tree to tree afterbeginning at the base and working its way upward. It lives in the woods that it may readily get its food, whichconsists of the small insects, their larvae and eggs, found onforest trees. Not having a strong bill lik^ the Woodpeckers, itcannot pierce the bark or wood, therefore it contents itselfwith what it can find upon the surface to eat. Peering intothe crevices of the bark, it spies out its prey and destroysthousands of tree-pests daily. So busy is it about this work thatit seldom stops a moment. For the help it thus renders in pre-serving the forests, this little bird deserves the kindest treat-ment. It is a shy bird and one difficult to observe carefullybecause of its habit of dodging to the opposite side of the tree 108
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_ _ M^^J-- . BLACK AND WHITE CKEEPINi \V \KHLEK.\tiiiut Life-si^e. whenever it finds out that it is being watched. There it remainsuntil it is sure no human eye is longer upon it. Then it beginsagain its spiral ascent or descent of the tree. Its search of thesurface of a tree is not so thorough as that of the regularCreepers, but it covers more trees in a day than they do. Migratory in its habits, it comes north about April first,nests in June and returns to Florida and farther south inOctober. Its song is a faint tsee, tsee, tsee. BIRD NOTES 109 OVEN-BIRD, OR GOLDEN-CROWNEDTHRUSH Center of crown orange-brown bordered with blackstripes; upper parts olive; under parts white, spotted orstreaked with black. Length, six inches. Nest, on the ground, made- of twigs, grass, leaves andmoss. The top is covered and the entrance is on the side.Eggs, four to five, white, spotted with brovfn and lilac, .80 x .60inches. This common bird is found in the forests of the UnitedStates and Canada during

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