Identifier: importantamerica00forb (find matches)
Title: Important American game birds; their ranges, habits and the hunting
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929, comp E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Hunt, Lynn Bogue, illus
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: Wilmington, Del., E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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erseems to threaten them coots will leave the cover of the marsh and come out into open water, wherethey swim and dive for food like any duck, but when thoroughly alarmed they scatter for the cover ofthe border vegetation. A pool black with coots will be cleared quickly by a sudden alarm, butmost of the birds merely take cover and soon reappear. The coot is so simple that it is not hard to approach, but its flesh is so inferior that it is not muchsought after. Nevertheless, many are killed from duck blinds, and many more are shot by settlers,when ducks are hard to get, as coots, dressed soon after they are shot, are not so bad, and fried cootgraces many a squatters table. WOODCOCK The woodcock like the owl is a night bird. Therefore, more or less mysteryPhilohela minor ensrirouds its habits. Many sportsmen consider it the finest of all game birds.It lies so close that I have known one, rising under foot, to strike the ear of mycompanion with its wing. 33 IMPORTANT AMERICAN- GAME BIRDS
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BOB-WHITE See page 43 1 M P O R.TANT AMERICAN- GAME • BIRDS The woodcock, a migratory bird, ranges over more of North America than does bob-white, butbreeds over a smaller region, is more local, and its numbers are far fewer. Eastern North America isits stamping ground. It is seen casually in Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Colorado, Newfoundland andBermuda. It breeds from northeastern North Dakota, southern Manitoba, northern Michigan, south-ern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, south to southern Kansas, southern Louisiana andnorthern Florida, and winters from Missouri, the Ohio Valley and New Jersey Crarely farther north),south to Texas and southern Florida. Throughout this range woodcock shooting may be had, accord-ing to the season, but only locally in limited localities adapted to the feeding habits of the bird. The woodcock nests very early in the year, in or near swampy land more or less covered with tim-ber or thickets. There it remains most of the time until the young are able

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