. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . few rootlets and black horse the bittersweet dies, the exposed bark peels away easilyinto thin, thread-like strands. By the second year the birdsfind the weather-beaten strings of this vine very well adaptedfor nesting material, though occasionally one may act as asnare, causing the death of one of the precious progeny. Bowdish has recorded in Bird Lore a somewhat similaraccident to a Baltimore orio
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . few rootlets and black horse the bittersweet dies, the exposed bark peels away easilyinto thin, thread-like strands. By the second year the birdsfind the weather-beaten strings of this vine very well adaptedfor nesting material, though occasionally one may act as asnare, causing the death of one of the precious progeny. Bowdish has recorded in Bird Lore a somewhat similaraccident to a Baltimore oriole. He found a nearly completednest from which hung the dead body of the female bird. Ahorse hair used in the construction had become twisted aboutthe neck and she had been strangled to death. In the Fall of 1906,1 found a burdock plant which had capturedthe golden-crowned kinglet, shown in the plate photographicillustration. I found these specimens at the border of an openfield along the roadside in Chicago. The mummified birdshowed evident signs of having been exposed to the action ofthe weather some time before I found it. Numerous feathers ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, WITH EXAMPLES 255. A Golden-crowned Kinglet captured and killed by the burrs of aburdock. Found at the border of an open field. 256 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA were entangled in the upper cluster of burrs, showing thatpossibly in the first struggle of the bird for its liberty it sufferedsevere contact there, stripping off many of its feathers. Itfinally fell victim to the lower bunch of the inextricable hooksand perished from fright and starvation. Goldfinches not infrequently fall victims to the burdocktraps. Mr. Bowdish, in the article before cited, mentionsthat young barn swallows not infrequently become entangledin the horse hairs of the nest lining and break a leg or are choked to death. Doubtless some of ourreaders will be able to recallmishaps to birds from theirpersonal experience, for theremust be many o
Size: 1284px × 1946px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbirds, booksubjectins
