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Identifier: birdlore11nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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HORNED GREBE REMOVING COVERING FROM EGGS ON RETURNING TO NEST A few days later, I stopped at the edge of woods surrounding their miniaturelake and scanned every clump of grass with my glasses, and was rewarded bvseeing Mrs. Grebe on her nest well out from the shore in a clump of slough grass.As I approached the shore, she slipped off the opposite side and swam off underwater; not being used to such tactics, it is no wonder I did not locate her sooner. (241)
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\IM 111- THE HORNKD (IREHK f242) Notes on Alberta Grebes 243 I rigged up a blind of limbs near the nest, and concealed a camera amongthem. That afternoon, both birds hovered around, and did everything except goon the nest. A few times one climbed up to the nest, only to cross and dive in onthe other side. It was very amusing to watch them swim slowly away sideways,then turn and swim toward the nest at high speed, their heads nodding at a greatrate, but, as they approached, their courage failed them. The next few days, I found that they had become accustomed to the blindand paid little attention to the addition of the camera, and I secured some inter-esting photographs of the Grebe removing rubbish from her eggs, etc. TheHolbcells Grebe is very common in this vicinity, but is usually in small coloniesin the larger sloughs and small lakes. On several occasions, I witnessed the inter-esting sight of young Grebes riding about on their mothers back, taking a boat-ride, as it were. The West

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