Birds and nature (1906) (14772164603)

Identifier: birdsnature31906chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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which we but as a call for a mate and to assist in prey the most is the Katy-did, which preparing the bill for the coming sum- we locate by hearing it sing, then wait- mer work, also for the enjoyment we ing until the song is started again, when receive as it is our principal method of it is easily discerned and captured. We designating who we are. are able to procure at least a dozen in one During the winter months our food afternoon, as well as catching many consisted mainly of acorns or dried bugs that fly about in the early twilight,berries. Through the months of April, As the late fall approaches we are kept May and June we live upon the larvae busy gathering acorns for present use found beneath the bark of the trees or and storing some so that should we stay in their surface woody tissue. We have until winter, we will have a partial two ways of knowing where the worms food supply, are located, first by the openings in the Edgar S. Jones. hark where the mother insect deposited 56
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THE BALDPATE DUCK (Anas americana.) The Baldpates or American Wid- feed chiefly upon insects, worms andgeons have an extensive range which small shells, and their flesh is much lesscovers North America, while they breed delicate than it is when they are feedingchiefly north of the United States, they on the wild celery of the Chesapeakealso nest in the Northern States of the Bay. They also visit the rice fieldsinterior, and casually southward to of the south during the winter, and inTexas. They are not known to nest on some localities they appear in these fieldsthe Atlantic coast. They pass the win- in such large numbers that they are saidter in large numbers in the Southern to do much damage. During the breed-States, and from there southward to ing season, the Baldpates, unlike nearlynorthern South America and Cuba, all of the other ducks, seem to prefer theDuring their migrations in the spring vicinity of rivers and open lakes,and fall, they frequent the rivers, and not the marshes,