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Title: The birds of Albany County; a catalogue of the species recorded in this vicinity with notes on their lives and habits, and brief field-marks for aid in identification
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Judd, Wilbur Webster
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albany, N. Y. (Press of Brandow printing co.)
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sans, and wild carrot hold dominion, the Meadowlark isvery common throughout the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys.They arrive almost as soon as the snow has disappeared. Inthe Fall they become gregarious and, when the air growsfrosty, depart for the South. Our bird has few lark-likecharacteristics, being partial to the earth rather than the sky,and flying low with rapid and somewhat laborious wingstrokes. To the observer it appears a plain, brownish bird,as it is extremely difficult to approach near enough to catcheven a glimpse of the yellow breast and black crescent. TheMeadowlarks song is a faint, sweet whistle—so faint, in fact,that when quite near to one it seems a long distance away.When not on the ground the bird likes to sit on fence-postsand low trees bordering the meadow. Meadowlark is one ofthe earliest spring arrivals in Albany County. The nest ismade of dry grass and placed under a tussock on the ground.Five or six large, white eggs, spotted with brown, are the nestcomplement.
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Nest and Eggs of Red-Eyed Vireo Plate XIII Red-winged Blackbird 97 Red-winged Blackbird.—Agelaius phaniceus. 9.50 Common Summer Resident Field marks.—Entire bird black, save a scarlet patch, edgedwith buff and white, at the bend of the wing. The cong-a-ree of the Red-wing is heard hereabouts alongthe middle of April, but it is not until the latter part of May,or early in June, when the long lush grass and cattails havegrown rank in marshes and along the edges of ponds, thatthe nests are built. These are neatly woven, deep, grassybaskets, generally set in a bush low over the water, or sunkin the long grass of a bog. When the first brood has takento wing a second nest is built about the first of July.Red-wings are extremely sociable, and almost always livetogether in colonies. In the Fall they gather into flocks, and,after wheeling about in gay companies for a short time, departfor more salubrious climes. The black plumage and brightred shoulder-straps of the male, and the plain bro

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