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Title: Familiar studies of wild birds : their haunts and habits
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whitman, F. N., 1888-
Subjects: Birds Photography of birds
Publisher: Boston : R.G. Badger
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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IX THE FOREGROUND THE BUSH WILLOWS ARE SEEN FOLLOWING AWINDING CREEK. BEYOND ARE THE ASPEN TREES IN WHICH THE TREESWALLOWS, PARKMANs WRENS, AND MANY OTHER BIRDS NEST. WITHINA HUNDRED YARDS OR SO INCLUDED IN THIS PICTURE WERE THE NESTSOF A YELLOW WARBLER, A HUMailNG-BIRD, AND NUMEROUS SAP-SUCKERS AND TREE SWALLOWS
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A SERIES OF CROSS PIECES FORMED A LADDER UP TO THE SLAB OXWHICH THE CAMERA WAS CI.A3rPED. THIS BROUGHT THE INSTRU-MENT WITHIX ABOUT SIX FEET OF THE HOLE IX THE OPPOSITE TREE THE MOURNING DOVE (Zenaidura macroura) OF the thirteen species of the familyColumbidse found in North Americathe mourning dove is much the mostcommon and widely distributed. In its deli-cate brown coloring, graceful body, and taper-ing tail it resembles its larger relative, the nowextinct passenger pigeon. Because of itshabit of nesting in isolated pairs, as well as itsnatural wariness, it is able to survive and flour-ish in populated regions where well protected,often nesting within town limits. In winterit is more gregarious, gathering in small flocksand frequently feeding around farm houses.Its low mournful cooing lends enchantmentto the woods at evening. In its selection of nesting sites, the doves 53 Familiar Studies of Wild Birds pick out odd and various places, sometimeschoosing the hollow top of a broken t

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