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Identifier: birdsnature21905chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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hanging under a porch of a farmhouse, and refused to be dispossessed,even after their work had been thrownout twice by the farmers wife. Theyfinally reared a brood in the third nestmade in this odd site. House Wrens be-come attached to a nesting site once se-lected and return to it year after year.They are irritably disposed, not onlyagainst individuals of their own kind,but also toward other familiar birds, suchas the martins and bluebirds, which theywill sometimes assail and drive fromtheir homes and then take possession ofthe site for their own habitation. Thishabit has made the Wrens disliked bymany people, especially in the East, butit should not be so, for the difficulty maybe overcome by providing bird-housesenough for the three species. TheWrens are fully as useful as are the mar-tins and bluebirds, but in a dififerent field.Mr. F. TI. King says: The size ofthe bluebird, its method of obtainingfood, and its haunts, fit it best for workin the open fields, where it should be 74
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PROM cot F. M. WOaORUFF HOUSE WREN. (Troglodytes aedon). About Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900. BY A, w. MUMFORD, CHICAGO especially encouraged; the House Wrenis especially fitted to do work among theshrubbery of orchards, gardens andyards, and these, particularly, should bethe foci of its lalDors. Such places, too,are the choice of the Wrens, and if givenplaces to nest in such localities they willbe quite sure to occupy them. It is quite difficult to enumerate allthe kinds of sites that are acceptable tothe Wrens for homes. The more com-mon sites are hollows in orchard trees,bird-boxes, holes and crevices or anyprotected places about buildings, holesin posts, and fence rails, and, in fact, anynook the entrance of which will admitthem. They have been known to nest indiscarded tin cans, in an old teapot, be-tween the window sash and the blinds,and in many other peculiar places. Nomatter where the nesting site is located,it is bravely defended against all bird in-truders. While the geographic

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