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Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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well advanced they may as wellhunt another home for they cannot dislodge the swallows. After their own nest is begun the bluebirds attend strictly to theirlabors and daddy twinklewing, as Dr. Hodge calls the male blue-bird, is so watchful that so small a bit of birddom as the wren cannotcome within a hundred feet of the box without a chase. After the second brood has left the nest both old and young dis-appea,r., but return occasionally for brief inspections of the old quar-ters. About the middle of October they pay a final visit then leavefor the winter. This inspection of the box so late in the fall makes one wonder ifit has any thing) to do with the next springs location. The fact thatthey do not so readily take up with a new box as an old one leadsone to think that the box may be chosen in the fall. In his habits the bluebird is very praiseworthy. Three-fourths ofhis food are composed of injurious insects. While he appreciates manywild fruits, he does not harm the cultivated ones.
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19 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 498. .^gelaius phoeniceus. (Linn.)Yz Life-size. COPYRIGHT 190 WISCONSIN BIRD-STUDY BULLETIN. 23 EED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. Abundant summer- resident. A few remain all winter; length nineand one-half inches; female quite unlike the male; nest deep andcoarse made of ynarsh grasses, weed stalks and the like, lined with finegrasses and root fibers; placed among bushes or cat-tails in swampyplaces; eggs three to five; song a musical chuck-a-lee-dle. Eed-winged black bird, so fully- describes this beautiful fellow thatone needs only to see him to know him. Perhaps red-shoulderedwould have been a better name for only asmall part of the wing is red, nor is the wing-patch wholly red; itshind margin is more buft or yellow than red. If you wish to make his acquaintance, go to the low grounds inspring or summer while the nest is being made or tended. You donot have to hunt him there, he announces himself. How nervonis andexcited he becomes! He is so afraid that you will discov

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