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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: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-1955
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries

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re to a great extent disregarded, and thereare no adequate means for their enforcement. The destructionof birds nests is forbidden ; yet there are endless collectionsmade every season. How many boys—and men too—are therein every village who take every year large numbers of eggswhich serve no purpose I Their only idea is to get a lot ofthem, which are gathered together without notes or observation,or even identification. All sparrow-like nests found on theground are said to belong to the ground sparrow or grasssparrow, or some such ambiguous bird. When the nest is foundand the eggs are taken the entire aim of this collector seemsto be satisfied ; the idea of making notes never even enters hishead. If asked where some particular egg was taken, he repliesvaguely : I dont remember exactly, but I think it was in sucha place, or perhaps some fellow gave it to me. Thus it is that eggs are destroyed and with them the meansof studying the birds during the most interesting period of their 4
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WOOD THRUSH ON NEST Introductory lives ; for where a birds nest is, there is its home in the strictestsense of the word. It is true that most birds are wanderers ;they go south shortly after the young are fully grown, to returnwhen the frost leaves the ground and the necessary supply of foodcan be obtained. But during the migration the bird is seldomresident for more than a few weeks in any one place ; he is rest-less and only awaits the time when he may get back to hisnesting place of the previous year. Here, where he sings hislove-songs and sets up housekeeping, is surely his real home andhabitation. In reading over the works of well-known ornithologists it issurprising to see how very little has been written about birdsduring the breeding season. The time occupied in nest-building;the period of incubation ; the appearance and habits of the youngat different ages ; how long they remain in the nest, and so on—these and the many other facts which give each species and eachbird fomil

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