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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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ove two pairs of Flickers and onepair of Crested Flycatchers from boxes which they had chosen, and evenattacked the Purple Martins whenever they alighted on the box put up forthem.* The FUckers and Crested Flycatchers eventually found nesting-placesin a remote corner of the grounds, but the other Woodpeckers mentioned gaveup and disappeared during the nesting-season. The House Wren is equallytyrannical, and no other small bird can nest in his vicinity. Several pairs ofCarolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice, and a pair of Bewicks Wrens, thathad been with us all winter, would have nested in boxes near the house but forthe rascally House Wrens, who, though possessing boxes of their own, drove *This, however, when only one or two Martins came. Later, when the Martins appearedin force, that is to say a dozen or more pairs at once, the Redheads did not molest them; butone of the compartments was occupied by a pair of flying squirrels (as I discovered too late)and the Martins did not return.
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Bird - Lore the other birds away; though the first two species mentioned found boxes inthe woods which they occupied without molestation. Our continuous residence at Larchmound from early in June, 1913, to thepresent time (November 27, 1914), has enabled me to observe for an entireyear, or indeed for an entire summer or winter, for the first time in nearlyhalf a century, the birds of that section of our country where, as a boy, Ifirst studied them. What this has meant to me, and how much the privilegehas been enjoyed and appreciated, may be more easily imagined than told.

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