Food Habits Of A Group Of Shore Birds

Author : Forest and Stream Office
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265501757
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shore Birds written by Forest and Stream Office and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shore Birds: I. Haunts and Habits; II. Range and Migrations; III. A Morning Without the Birds; IV. Nomenclature; V. Localities; Vi. Blinds and Decoys T was in the month of April, 1868, that we made our debut as a duck shooter on a Western prairie. Born and bred almost within the sound of the breakers on N cw Eng land's rock-bound coa't, we had been tau ht to b lieve that the shore birds - Limic Jae - were, wi h few exceptions, con. Fined to the seaboard, and when we saw large flocks of sev eral species of these birds feeding on the prairies we could (carcely believe our eyes. Nor would anything short of a dead specimen in hand satisfy us of our errors. A golden plover (ulnradrz'us rirgz'nr'cus, Borck was scoured and found to be itent'cal in every particular with the golden plover of the Atlantic coast; and, notwiths ending Prof. Baird had many years earlier declared their habitat to be all of N rth Amer ica, and visiting at 0 other c ntinents. We could not some ho y seem to realize the fact that they were so abundant at so gr! At a distance from the sea shore. Other species were also observed, notahl y sicklebilled curlew (numenz'us longirost/ is, Esquimaux curlew (numem'us borealt's, Lath sum mer-yellow-legs (tetanus flavipes, Vieill a;d dgctol'il sand pipers (triage pectoralis, We endeavored to glean from intelligent gunners of that regt tn some information rc lating t) the habits, food, migrations, etc., of these birds, but on labors in this direction were vain and futile. The Z, fact was p xtent that no one cared to waste time or ammuni tion on such small birds as plover or curlew when deer, swan geese dnrks and th ir congencrs were abundant in every direction Another very serious obstac'e in the way of our inquiries was encountered, viz., synonomy. We found it very dxfiicult to make ourselves understool when underag ing to describe a particular species, so very different are the local names of birds.2 shore birds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.