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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^ of apple orchards. Butit has been demonstrated that these birdsare worthy of protection for the amountof cultivated fruits which they eat isgreatly overbalanced by the number ofinsects and their larvae which they de-stroy. The nesting habits of these Wood-peckers are very interesting. The nest- 50
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132 RED BELLIED WOODPECKER. (Melanerpes carolinus).I Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO ing cavities which are excavated in ly the softer wooded ones, such as elms, trees at heights varying from five to basswood, maple, chestnut, poplar, wil- over seventy feet above the ground are low and sycamore, are preferred to the prepared by the united efforts of both harder kinds, such as ash, hickory, oak, sexes. Both the sexes assist also in the .etc. In the south the nesting sites incubation of the eggs and are devoted are frequently excavated in pine trees, to their young, frequently, it is said, and in Texas and prairie regions they allowing themselves to be captured often nest in telegraph poles. While rather than desert their young. Their these birds are shy and retiring es- nests are said to average about, a foot pecially during the nesting season, in depth and may be excavated in either throughout the greater part of their living or dead wood. It is said, how- range.

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