. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. 700 THE XATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. JOE HOWELL LOOKS IN ON A CARACARA S NEST It is a difficult climb to the top of a cabbage palm, but the investiKator negotiated the smooth bark, the rough crown, and the sharp fans to get a glimpse of the young birds about ready to leave home (pp. 702-,5). He discovered that they had been banded, each bearing a number recorded by the Bureau of Biological Survey at Washington, D. C. A vulturelike bird of prey, Audubon's caracara captures snakes, lizards, and other animals, or joins buzzards f
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. 700 THE XATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. JOE HOWELL LOOKS IN ON A CARACARA S NEST It is a difficult climb to the top of a cabbage palm, but the investiKator negotiated the smooth bark, the rough crown, and the sharp fans to get a glimpse of the young birds about ready to leave home (pp. 702-,5). He discovered that they had been banded, each bearing a number recorded by the Bureau of Biological Survey at Washington, D. C. A vulturelike bird of prey, Audubon's caracara captures snakes, lizards, and other animals, or joins buzzards feeding on carrion. bird's amazement when he flew at the song but could find no bird on which to vent his wrath (page 696). In Florida we were unsuccessful in our search for the ivory-billed woodpecker. Tf it still occurs in this part of its former range, it will take keener ears or luckier observers than we to find it. So the last of March we started for Louisiana, where Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson had reported the finding of an ivorybill by Alason D. Spencer near the Tensas River in 1932. On our way we stopped at Beach ton, Georgia, at the charming home of Herbert Stoddard, the great authority on the bob- white. He had arranged with Gol. L. S. Thompson to bait up a flock of wild turkeys on a chufa patch in a clearing on his plan- tation so that we could secure motion pic- tures and voice recordings of these shy, absohiteh' feral birds, uncontaminated by any domestic blood.* One familiar only with domestic turkeys little realizes the wariness of these grand old birds, or the stealth necessary to get within camera distance. * See "Game Birds of Prairie, Forest, and Tun- dra," by .\lexandcr Welmore, N.\tuin.^l Geo- graphic Magazine, October, 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 Washingto
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