. Bulletin. Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. TREE SPARROW cold and, compared with spring, the trail will seem utterly abandoned by wild life. Nowhere will one hear a constant flood of song, such as is so JUNco evident in spring when the mating impulse brings birds into full chorus. The few birds that are still with us have their activities reduced to a minimum. The pulse of nature is slowed to a sleeping tempo. However, the bird student need not wait for spring and its host of colourful migrants. There are plenty of things to see in winter. In and about Toronto from fifteen t
. Bulletin. Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. TREE SPARROW cold and, compared with spring, the trail will seem utterly abandoned by wild life. Nowhere will one hear a constant flood of song, such as is so JUNco evident in spring when the mating impulse brings birds into full chorus. The few birds that are still with us have their activities reduced to a minimum. The pulse of nature is slowed to a sleeping tempo. However, the bird student need not wait for spring and its host of colourful migrants. There are plenty of things to see in winter. In and about Toronto from fifteen to twenty species of birds may be seen on a winter day during a two or three-hour hike. In fact, if a notebook is kept, as should be done, one may find that forty different kinds of birds have been seen during a single winter. Con- siderably more than that number appear on the records of winter birds in the files of the Museum but, of course, these cover a period of more than forty winters. For the beginner the winter may be the best season for the reason that there are fewer species to learn to recognize. The bare condition of trees and thickets with the resultant increase of visibility is ideal for viewing the characteristic markings of birds and acquiring the deftness necessary in keeping such spirited objects as birds within the field of the binoculars. In the study of ornithology the first requirement is to be capable of recognizing the various species of birds and to de- signate them by a generally accepted name. This knowledge is best obtained in the field and from books, although these sources may be supplemented by visits to the Museum. Additional information about birds—where and how they live—will come through increased familiarity with them in the field, one's powers of observation and de- duction increasing through HORNED LARK. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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