The Bird Study Book

About this eBook

Author

Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943

Credits

E-text prepared by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Birds -- Conservation

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21007

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21007

Release Date

April 8, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Wood Thrush — The Bird Study Book — By
2. 2.T. Gilbert Pearson — Secretary, National Association of Audubon Societies — Coloured Frontispiece Pen and ink drawings by Will Simmons And sixteen photographs — Garden City ——— New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1917 — TO MY WIFE ELSIE WEATHERLY PEARSON — PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — THE BIRD STUDY BOOK — CHAPTER I — FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE BIRDS — The Fox that Followed the Footsteps — Heads and feet of various birds — Sample page of reporting-blank — A ferocious young eagle — The Umbrella Blind — CHAPTER II — THE LIFE ABOUT THE NEST — Nest of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird — The Bald Eagle's Eyrie — Gannets nesting on the cliffs. Bonaventure Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence. — The Grebe or "Water Witch" — A male plumbous gnatcatcher feeding young — CHAPTER III — DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE BIRDS — A mountain Bluebird family. Its home having been destroyed it is now enjoying temporary quarters furnished by a kindly hand. — Canada Geese Decoys — The Greedy Young Cowbird — CHAPTER IV — THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS — Young robins quarreling at their bath. Photographed in the yard of Mrs. Granville Pike, North Yakima, Washington — Migration Routes of Some North American Birds — Lighthouses Cause the Death of Many Birds — Tired Migrating Birds Often Alight on Ships — Feeding station for birds on the grounds of R. G. Decker, Rhinebeck, New York. The glass sides prevent the seeds from being blown off the tray a foot or more below the roof. — CHAPTER V — THE BIRDS IN WINTER — Grouse "Budding" in an Apple Tree — A Snowy Egret that came home to die. It was shot on its feeding-grounds, and then flew several miles and died on its nest in the Audubon Society's Reservation at Orange Lake, Florida. — CHAPTER VI — THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIRDS — Cuckoo, Raiding a Tent of Caterpillars — Farallon Cormorants and White Pelicans on a Government Bird Reservation in southern Oregon. — Screech Owl and Its Prey — CHAPTER VII — CIVILIZATION'S EFFECT ON THE BIRD SUPPLY — Passenger Pigeons Are Now Extinct — Window "Caféteria," at home of Mrs. Granville Pike, North Yakima, Washington. The birds here seen at their lunch are the Goldfinch, Housefinch, and Oregon Junco. — The Great Auk, Another Extinct Bird — CHAPTER VIII — THE TRAFFIC IN FEATHERS — Terns, Formerly Sought by the Feather Trade — A Christmas dinner for the birds. Note the Song Sparrow on a Sunflower head and a Chickadee weighing himself. Photographed by Mrs. Granville Pike — Crowned Pigeon That Furnishes the Goura of the Feather Trade — An Egret, bearing "aigrettes," in attendance on her young — CHAPTER IX — BIRD-PROTECTIVE LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT— HOW LAWS ARE MADE — Migrative Birds Are Protected by the Government — Egret brooding on a Florida island owned and guarded by the Audubon Society. — CHAPTER X — BIRD RESERVATIONS — The Downy Woodpecker is fond of suet — LIST OF NATIONAL BIRD RESERVATIONS — The Grotesque Wood Ibis — Members of a junior Audubon class at Fergus Falls, Minnesota — Hungry Young Egrets — CHAPTER XI — MAKING BIRD SANCTUARIES — Cemented Holes Shut Out the Chickadee — Gourds and Boxes for Martins — A California hospital for injured birds, erected and maintained by Mrs. Harriet W. Myers of Los Angeles — A Bird Bath — CHAPTER XII — TEACHING BIRD STUDY — Preparing for the coming of the birds. A Junior Audubon class on Prince Edward Island — Colouring of Birds upon Outline Drawings

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.