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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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sin the northern United States. This last is a very destructive forest insect, as itslarvae lives in the trunks and roots of certain trees, and being of enormous sizeits burrows are a great damage to the timber. Weevils were found in manystomachs, and as many as ten were contained in one. The rest of the foodconsists of ants, which constitute eleven per cent of the food, with a few bugs,grasshoppers, caterpillars, etc. The redhead eats fewer ants than any of theforegoing species, as these insects are not so often found on the bare poles whichthe bird so persistently haunts. The Flicker (Colaptes auratus). Three species of the genus Colaptes, with several subspecies, are found withinthe limits of the United States. Their differences in form, size and plumageare not remarkable, and their variations in diet are still less noticeable—in fact,whatever may be said of the food of one may be said of all, making due allowancefor differences in the available food supply of various localities.
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fa/S Cjparstz (faerfer. FLICKER, Male BIRDS AS CONSERVATORS OF THE FOREST. 247 The Eastern form, commonly known as the flicker, or golden-winged wood-pecker, is one of the largest and best known of our common woodpeckers, and ismore migratory than either the downy or hairy. In winter it is absent, or at leastvery scarce, on its breeding range in the Northern States, where it is- abundant insummer and early fall. In most places it is a much shyer bird than any of thepreceding, and while it frequents the farm, and comes about the buildings freely,it keeps more in the tops of the trees, and does not allow so near an approach ofits greatest enemy—man. It is the most terrestrial of all the woodpeckers, in spiteof its high-perching and high-nesting proclivities, and may often be seen walkingabout in the grass like a meadow lark. From the examination of over 400 stomachs of the flicker, it has been found thatits food consists of approximately sixty per cent of animal matter and forty perce

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