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Identifier: birdlore17nati (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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MALE RED-BACKED SHRIKE were nearly full-grown and the parents actively engaged in feeding them.Naturally my presence was resented, and in strong language. Finding me hardto move by mere words, the old birds resorted to strategy. For ten minutesthey pretented to feed imaginary young, thirty or forty yards away. Theytook a deal of trouble to deceive me, catching insects and grubs and droppingdown to this spot time after time, depositing the food there, every now and Bird-Photography for Women i8S again flying over their real nest and uttering warning cries to the young. But,as nothing disturbed me, they finally took me for a harmless person, andquietly settled down to feed the now clamorous young. While photographing Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio collurio) from arough shelter, I saw one of the most amusing episodes I have ever witnessed
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FEMALE RED-BACKED SHRIKE in bird domestic life. I was hidden within three feet of a nest which containedfour young. The parents either visited the nest together, or followed eachother in quick succession; but the male usually fed the brood from the rightside, and the female from the left. On one occasion, while the female lingered,watching her family with an admiring eye, the male arrived with the head of anestling bird, which he proceeded to push down the throat of one little Shrike, i86 Bird-Lore with the result that it was nearly choked. He then tried all four in turn,waxing more and more persistent at each failure. Meanwhile the hen carriedon a gentle conversation with him, the gist of which was quite obvious to theonlooker. After having patiently watched while each of her babies in turnwas left gasping by her mates well-meant, but misdirected efforts, she gentlyedged round to where he stood looking helpless and very foolish, holding therejected food in his bill. She quietly took

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