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Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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NEST AND EGGS OF THE FLORIDA WILD TURKEY have found sets of sixteen eggs, but nineor ten is the usual number, and, for a younghen, six and seven is the size of the set.Down in the Everglade region the Turkeyusually builds in a thick clump of saw-palmetto bushes, and makes her nest ofdry grass and leaves; and I found them onthe ground under the top of a fallen pinewhen there was a good thicket of grassaround it. I once saw twenty-three of nine Turkey-gobblers feeding in a sim-ilar place further along. Such flocks asthis are not unusual when the Turkey isplentiful. I camped at a mans homesteaddown on the edge of the OkaloacoocheeSlough for a few days once in late March;and every morning and evening nine henscame into his cultivated field to feed, anddid not seem to mind us if we did not gotoo close to them.
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The Audubon Societies 479 TAMING WILD BIGHORNS A very delightful example of how theshyest wild animals may be taught totrust mankind, and will yield their fearsunder the influences of continuous kind-ness and a sense of security, is afforded bythe bighorn sheep that every winter comedown into the town of Ouray to getfood. Mountain sheep have become so rarethat it has become necessary to prohibit fifteen or twenty in all, and were again fedas long as they cared to remain. The thirdyear they came in larger numbers andearlier, seeming to prefer the easily obtainedalfalfa hay to the harder fare of the hills.Last winter (1913-14) they first appearedin December, and others during Januaryand February, until about seventy-fivewere fed daily, the state providing thefeed under the supervision of the local

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