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Title: How to attract the birds : and other talks about bird neighbors
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds Bird attracting
Publisher: New York : Doubleday Page
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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What Birds Do for Us insect hunt throughout a long sojourn among us,coming when the first insects emerge in the springand not wholly giving up the chase until thelast die or become dormant with the coming ofwinter. What could a little warbler do with tentcaterpillars, for example? But slim, large cuckoosglide among the leafy branches and count them-
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Most birds will not touch the hairy kind177 How to Attract the Birds selves lucky to enter a neighborhood infested bythem. The sudden appearance of a new insect pestoften attracts large numbers of birds not commonly seen in theneighborhood.If dead or muti-lated larvae oftent caterpillarsare seen near thetorn tent it wasprobably openedby an oriole, forthe cuckoo doeshis work morethoroughly, leav-ing no remains.The black-billedcuckoo has beenan invaluable allyof the farmers intheir herculeantask of destroy-ing the gypsymoth, an alarm-ing pest which,although onlyrecently intro-duced from Eu-rope, has already

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