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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1913alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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rug, poisonous chemicals or explosives, for the purpose ofinjuring, capturing or killing any protected bird or animal; alsoprohibits hunting protected birds or animals between dark anddaylight. Unlawful to kill or capture any song or insect destroyingbird at any time. Open season on deer, Nov. 1st to Jan. 1st, and prohibits killingof doe, or female deer, at all times. Open season on squirrels from Oct. 1st to the following March1st. Fixes the following limits for each person in one day: Onedeer, two turkeys, and twenty-five game birds. Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of protected game birdsor animals. Prohibits the shipping or carrying of game except openly andin the possession of those who have hunters license, as required bylaw. Prohibits carriers from accepting game to be carried in anyother way, either within the State or without the State. Prohibitsabsolutely the carrying or shipping of live game. Makes it unlawful to hunt on the land of another withoutwritten permission.
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Alabama, ipi3. 27 M THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK. 1* HE American Woodcock is the oddest looking land-bird inNorth America. Its legs are too short for so large a body, itstail is only half as long as it should be, its neck too short and thick,and its head is entirely out of drawing. The eyes are placed toofar back, and the bill is too long and too straight. In appearance,the Woodcock looks like an avian caricature. But, odd or not, this bird is very dear to the heart of thegreat American sportsman, and its plump brown body is a genuinedelicacy. It has a long array of local names, some of which areso uncouth that the less said concerning them the better. The long, sensitive beak of this bird is really a probe and a pairof forceps combined, for probing in soft earth or mud for earthworms, and dragging them out when found. In order to feed, theWoodcock has no option but to frequent the moist banks of woodedstreams, or wet grounds in the shelter of bushes or timber, whereit can work unobserved. D

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