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Identifier: birdlore23nati (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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itively uncanny. When resting or feeding, some of the birds always havetheir heads elevated and are scanning the horizon for danger. (270) Canada Goose 271 One successful method of hunting these birds in autumn is to dig a pit in acornfield and cover it with corn-stalks. The hunter here conceals himself andshoots the Geese when they come into the field to feed on the corn, which forsome time has been daily scattered over the ground as a lure. Along the SouthAtlantic Coast many are shot from blinds erected on points of marsh or shal-low shoals where the Geese come to feed or rest. These blinds are constructedof four strong stakes driven into the mud, forming a square three feet or moreacross. These, in turn, support the blind which consists of a boarded floor andsides made of long grasses or reeds cut from the neighboring marshes. In thisthe hunter crouches and shoots the Wild Geese as they approach the wooden orlive-Goose decoys anchored nearby. A modification of the blind-shooting is
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CURI- 1 LCK WILD iOWL HUNTERS PAINTING THEIR CANADA GEESE DECOYSPhotographed by T. Gilbert Pearson battery-shooting. Here the hunter lies on his back in a box shaped like acoffin, and protected from the waves by wings of boards and canvas. Aroundhim on the water are the bobbing wooden dummies of Geese. Live decoys,too, are always used when available. These are of great help for they willhonk and call to the gunner any of their kind that chance to be passing withinhalf a mile. Until the passage of the recent Federal laws which make it a misdemeanorto sell the bodies of wild fowl, Canada Geese were annually killed in largenumbers and sold in the markets. When properly prepared this bird makesa most acceptable addition to the menu. Adult Canada Geese weigh from eightto fourteen pounds, hence one is indeed a prize for the game-bag. 272 Bird - Lore Along our eastern seaboard, many Canada Geese are reared as domesticbirds. The original parents of these flocks were wounded in winter shooting

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