Identifier: wildlifeoforchar00inge (find matches)
Title: Wild life of orchard and field;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
Subjects: Animal behavior
Publisher: (New York London) Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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he other sparrows; but the less conmionname, Canada sparrow, is better. Once in a whilethey come into the towns; but the English spar-rows soon get news of their presence and drivethem away in true buccaneering style. Thesesame outrageous English sparrows are the mostconspicuous, really, of all our January birds, andnow practise a real semi-annual migration backand forth between city and country like so manytramps. Some birds besides those already noticed are res-idents with us the year round: thus a few robins,bluebirds, crows, bluejays, cedar-birds, kingfishers,flickers, blackbirds, purple finches, wild pigeons,quails, grouse, and woodcocks are always likelyto be found in the neighborhood of New York inJanuary; while one or two of the arctic wood-peckers, the Canada jay, the waxwing, and someother rarities, may be met with at long intervals.Of the birds of prey, we have in greater or lessnumbers this month the golden and bald eagles(about the Palisades), an occasional osprey, the 68
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WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD rough-legged, red-shouldered, and red-tailed buz-zards, the marsh-harrier, and some others; and,among owls, the fierce snowy owl, which will takea grouse from its roost or carry off a hare; thebarred, great horned-owl, long-eared, short-eared,mottled, and little saw-whet owls. Along the ad-jacent shores of Long Island and New Jersey areseen the various sea-ducks, coots, and geese;the loon, and an occasional Northern sand-piper,like the splendid purple one; the herring, kitti-wake, laughing, black-backed, and several othergulls; and irregularly certain wandering sea-birds whose lives are not so much affected by cli-matic conditions as are those of the land-birds. Deprived of the small reptiles, the young ofsquirrels and other mammals, eggs, and the largenight-flying moths and beetles which in summerform a good portion of their subsistence, the pre-daceous birds become more fierce in winter thanat any other time, and exercise all their cunningin the pursui

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