Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on the Study of Birds in NatureD. Appleton, 1912 - 530 pagina's |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abundant Alaska altricial American ashy Bahamas Bank Swallow barred with black belly white bill bill black Bird Migration bird's birds blackish bluish Bobolink breast Breeds brownish gray buffy Calif Cambridge casual coast color common S. R. crown Date Ducks Eggs Family feathers feet flight flocks Florida Flycatcher fuscous Glen Ellyn grasses grayish brown Grebes greenish Greenland Gulls habits Hawk head Herons Keewatin less Linn Long Island male margined Marsh Wren marshes migration Minn molt neck nest ochraceous-buff Ohio olive-green Ossining outer tail-feathers pale Plover plumage primaries Range.-N rare T. V. resembles Ridgw rufous rufous-brown rump Scarlet Tanager season Sept sides sometimes Song Sparrow species spotted streaked with black Terns throat Thrush tipped with white trees underparts underparts white Ungava upper tail-coverts upperparts Vireo Warbler Washington whitish wing-bars wing-coverts wings and tail winter Wisc Woodpeckers yellow young zones
Populaire passages
Pagina 32 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise in common, ranged in figure, wedge their way intelligent of seasons, and set forth their aery caravan, high over seas flying and over lands, with mutual wing easing their flight — so steers the prudent crane her annual voyage, borne on winds — the air floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes.
Pagina 497 - Chapman says (Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume, but in purity and sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled.
Pagina 101 - By virtue of this act about $90,000 has been paid in bounties during the year and a half that has elapsed since the law went into effect. This represents the destruction of at least 128,571 of the abovementioned animals, most of which were Hawks and Owls. "Granting that 5,000 chickens arc killed annually in Pennsylvania by Hawks and Owls...
Pagina 312 - Owl is nocturnal in its habits, remaining quiet during the day in the thick foliage of the trees or bushes. In fact, its vision is apparently so affected by bright light that many specimens have been captured alive by persons walking up and taking them in their hands. On this account the Eskimo in Alaska have given it the name of
Pagina 425 - We might suppose him to be repeating moderately, with a pause between each sentence 'you see it — you know it — do you hear me? — do you believe it?' All these strains are delivered with a rising inflection at the close and with a pause as if waiting for an answer.
Pagina 294 - Of 133 stomachs examined, 34 contained poultry or game birds; 52, other birds; 11, mammals;, 1, frog; 3, lizards; 2, insects, and 3 were empty
Pagina 493 - The songs of the wood and hermit thrushes are of the same character, but while the hermit is the more gifted performer, the wood thrush does not suffer by the comparison. His calm, restful song rings through the woods like a hymn of praise rising pure and clear from a thankful heart.
Pagina 388 - ... that is not shared by their northern brethren. In the fall, young and old gather into bands, and, joining with other species, form an important part of the large flocks of migrating Sparrows that fill the fields and hedgerows. The song is insignificant — a weak, musical little trill following a grasshopperlike introduction, and is of such small volume that it can be heard but a few rods.
Pagina 28 - Animals and plants are restricted in southward distribution by the mean temperature of a brief period covering the hottest part of the year.
Pagina 101 - ... bounds to say that in the course of a year every hawk and owl destroys at least a thousand mice or their equivalent in insects, and that each mouse or its equivalent so destroyed would cause the farmer a loss of two cents per annum.