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Identifier: bookofbirdscommo00nati (find matches)
Title: The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Kennard, F. H., (Frederic Hedge), 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-1942
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Photograph by George Shiras, 3rd DIRDS C.\N TAKE THKIK OWN IlCTlRKS (SKK P.\GES IOI-IO4) .•\ftcr tryini; vainly for more than an Imur to pliotd^rai)!! ci>niparativcly tame l>uz/ardsand vultures, Mr. (leorRC Shiras. 3rd (tiie inventor of tlashliKlU plu>tojj;raphy of wild animalsand birds, and of a method liy which animals and l>irds take their own photo^jrapiis ). al>an-doned the blind behind which he had been concealed and set out his automatic camera withstring and bait. On returning in about half an hour he found the bait Ronc. and the develop-ment of the plate some hours later revealed the above ;iicture of a black Floriila vulture andtame buzzards. Consult numerous articles b\ Mr. .^hiras in the National CiKoORAiMnc Maga-zine.
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THE LONGEST SINGLE FLIGHT MADE BY ANY BIRD 2,500 MILES ACROSS THE OCEAN FROM NOVA SCOTIA TO SOUTH AMERICA This map shows the migration route of the golden plover, which uses a different course oiiits return from its winter home (see pages 185 and 187) 180 OUR GREATEST TRAVELERS Birds that Fly from Pole to Pole and Shun the Darkness; Birds that Make 2,500 Miles in a Single Flight By WELLS W. COOKE Of the Biological Survey, U. vS. Dkpaktmkxt df Acrici-i.turr TIIE niij^ration of birds has longbeen considered an unfathomablemystery, but recent investigationshave furnished abundant data on thewhen and where of migration and solvedmany of its puzzles. The Bureau of Bio-logical Survey of the United States De-partment of Agriculture has collectedmuch information on the migration ofNorth American birds, and this article isan attempt to put in popular form someof the data that have already appearedin the more technical bulletins and re-ports. No correct understanding of birdmigration is possibl

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