. Further observations on Minnesota birds : their economic relations to the agriculturist . find their way into the markets of the Eastand South, fattened bv ^■oracious feeding in the rice fields. Whilewith us in the North, the^ eat large numbers of injurious insects. THEIK ECONOMIf S TO THE THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 13. However injuriuus the group of blackbirds become in latesummer and fall, in the spring and early summer they almost orquite pay for their depredations by consuming large numbers ofinjurious insects. The Red-wing is a welcome arrival in the earlyspring.
. Further observations on Minnesota birds : their economic relations to the agriculturist . find their way into the markets of the Eastand South, fattened bv ^■oracious feeding in the rice fields. Whilewith us in the North, the^ eat large numbers of injurious insects. THEIK ECONOMIf S TO THE THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 13. However injuriuus the group of blackbirds become in latesummer and fall, in the spring and early summer they almost orquite pay for their depredations by consuming large numbers ofinjurious insects. The Red-wing is a welcome arrival in the earlyspring. Its reall}- melodious note at that time is tuneful comfortto bird lovers, after a long winter de\(iid of feathered that time, the position taken by the bird in uttering its char-acteristic note or notes discloses to advantage its scarlet shoulderswell set ofT by glossy black of wings, body, and tail. The gray-ish-brown female, streaked with black, we mav not notice, butthe male compels attention. The Department of Agriculture has made an exhaustive studyof this birds food habits and finds about Js of its diet consists ofharmful insects and weed seeds. Locally when in large flocks, asabove intimated, it—with others of its tribe—may be very harm-ful and a resort, on the part of the farmer, to extreme measttresis justified.
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