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Identifier: birdlore15noas (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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e bird and its mate did not return to their accustomednesting-place the following year because the bushes had been cut down. The young observer who followed the history of the Robins nest from the time shehappened to find it until it was blown down in a winter storm made a discovery quiteworth while concerning the durabilitj^ and destruction of one kind of nests, besideslearning at first hand several interesting facts about young birds in the nest, especiallywith reference to their growth; while the child who studied birds with her father andattracted them to her sick-room will hardly forget her feathered friends and her manyhappy experiences with them, as she grows older. The letters from this school contain an unusual number of personal observations,and offer an excellent example of the interest which boys and girls naturally take inthe outdoor life around them. Other teachers will do well to encourage their pupils towrite about what they actually hear and sec in nature.—A. H. W.)
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THE HUDSONIAN CURLEW Bv A. C. BKNT ^;)t jgational Si&Qotimion of j^udubon ^ocittitu KDUCATIONAI. LEAFLET NO. 62 A striking case of the sur\ival of the fittest is seen when we compare therelative abundance of the three common species of North American Curlewstoday with their status fifty years ago. Whereas, at that time, the HudsonianCurlew was the rarest of the three, it is now by far the commonest. The vastflocks of Eskimo Curlew, that formerly frequented the Labrador coast everysummer or visited the New England coast at frequent intervals, have all dis-appeared. They were tame and unsuspicious, were easily decoyed, and weretherefore slaughtered in enormous numbers on their feeding-grounds; theymade a long migratory flight over the ocean from Nova Scotia to South America,where many undoubtedly perished in stormy weather. The Long-billed Curlew, once so common all over the interior prairieregions, and even on the Atlantic coast, has gradually been driven westwardand northward, unt

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