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Title: Bird homes : The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ofthe State. Some birds return regularly year after year to the same nest-ing site, even after their nests have been robbed several times. Ihave known a crested flycatcher to build in the same hole forthree years in succession though each set of eggs was taken.Phcebes return with great regularity to the same bridge, building,or rock, where they make one or two nests each season. Someof the owls also use the same hole for many years, and hawksand crows rebuild their old nests, so that each year the nest be-comes larger as layer after layer is added. Most, if not all, birds are governed in their habits by regularrules—^from which, however, they occasionally depart just ashuman beings depart from the rules which seem most generallyapplicable. The Wilsons thrush, whose nest is commonly on or near theground, has been known to build in a hole in a tree. Bob-whitesnests containing thirty-seven eggs have been reported—thoughthese were, of course, not all laid by one hen. The eggs were 14
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Birds Nests and Eggs said to be arranged in tiers, with the smaller ends pointing towardsthe centre. It is curious to note that if the female bob-white iskilled after the eggs arf; laid, the male bird takes upon himself theentire duty of incubating. This may not be an invariable rule, buta number of instances have been reported by reliable observers.Robins will sometimes build their nests in buildings or bridgeswith no vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the nest, andmocking-birds have chosen fence rails and other such queer placesfor their building sites. In parts of the old world and in South America will be foundbirds that build extraordinary nests and have curious habits. Themale hornbills have a remarkable custom of incarcerating the femalein a hole in a tree during the period of incubation, by seahng upthe entrance with mud, leaving a small opening through whichshe is supplied with food. Should the male be killed it is a ques-tion whether or not the female could free herself

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