. Camera studies of wild birds in their homes . Birds; Photography of birds. 45 mouths are perliaps even larger than tliose of Nighthawks. They swallow, with ease, the largest of the moths and sphinges and relish equally well small gnats or winged ants. Chuck-wills-widows, larger members of the same genus, found commonly in ':he Southern States are even more vor- acious and devour anything that happens to be a-wing at night and that will go in their enormous mouths; frequently. Fig. 38. WHIP-POOR-WILL. Notice how perfectly she blends into the surrounding leaves. The living bird as seen by the
. Camera studies of wild birds in their homes . Birds; Photography of birds. 45 mouths are perliaps even larger than tliose of Nighthawks. They swallow, with ease, the largest of the moths and sphinges and relish equally well small gnats or winged ants. Chuck-wills-widows, larger members of the same genus, found commonly in ':he Southern States are even more vor- acious and devour anything that happens to be a-wing at night and that will go in their enormous mouths; frequently. Fig. 38. WHIP-POOR-WILL. Notice how perfectly she blends into the surrounding leaves. The living bird as seen by the eye shows no plainer than it does here. the remains of small birds are found in their stomachs, prob- ably caught while flying from one perch to another. Whip-poor-wills are very noisy on warm, clear, still nights. One night I pitched my tent beside a juniper tree on a point of land making out into a beautiful lake. This particular tree happened to be the favorite lookout perch of a Whip-poor-will, or else he was attarcted to it by the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912. Worcester, Mass : Reed
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