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Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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woods, poplars,hickories and red-elms have had the smallpox and are covered V\ithpitSj we conclude that the bird is not as harmful as some people sup-pose him to be. You v/ouldthink that when the woodpeckers had once mastered theart of digging their facd out of the limbs and trunks of trees theywould stick to their trade, but at least two o-f them do not. The flickerand the sapsucker have departed from the ways of their fathers andhave learned to prefer ants to vfood-boring grubs. The flicker is Ihegreatest ant-eater among Wisconsin birds and the sapsucker is nexL.Over one-third of his food consists of ants. The regular woodpecker tongTie is a barbed spear and is used forpiercing grubs and drawing them from their burrows for food. Notso the tongue of the sapsucker. His tongue is brushy at the end^ likethat of the flicker, and is m.uch better for getting sap from pits andants from their holes than a spear-pointed tongue would be. The Oriole, in Notes on Nebraska Birds, Lawrence Bruner.
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21 766. BLUEBIRD.Sialia sialis. (Linn.)Life size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A, W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO WISCONSIN BIRD-STUDY BULLETIN. • 21 BLUEBIRD. Common summer resident; length seven inches; sexes much alikefemale duller; nest in hollow stumps, trees, posts and in bird-boxes;eggs four to six; note a short but very pleasing contralto warble. To think of the bluebird is to think of Spring. The long weeks ofwinter have had their rugged pleasures. The bird lover may havetaken snow-shoe tramps afield to search for traces of the quail andgrouse, to share a meal with the friendly chickadee, to watch thewoodpeckers or tree sparrows, or to discover some occasional residentas the robin or red-winged blackbird, shrike or crossbill; but in themain, the fields have been deserted and the wild life, like the woods,has seemed wrapped in a long, restful sleep. We begin to long for theringing up of the white curtain and the lowering of the green one.How glad Ave are when the warble of the bluebird, the cackl

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