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Identifier: birdsofamericafr04audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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tedthem of being Woodpeckers, for they perched in dense flocks almost likeStarlings, and did not climb the branches, or tap in the least, but merelywatched and darted after insects, or devoured berries like Thrushes. Weseldom saw this remarkable species in the dense forests of the Columbia, orin any settled part of California. Mr. Townsend says, We first found them on Bear river, and afterwardson the Columbia, where they arrive about the first of May. They are atfirst silent, but after incubation commences, they become very noisy andremarkably pugnacious, beating away all other birds from the vicinity oftheir nests. They frequently perch cross ways upon the smaller branches oftrees, as well as against their trunks, climb with the usual ease and activityof other species, and are in the frequent habit of darting out from the treeon which they had stationed themselves, and after having performed acircular gyration in the air, returning immediately to the branch from which N°55. PI 2 72.
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