. Nature study and life. Nature study. TAMING AND FEEDING BIRDS 353 being swallowed alive. It is a rare lesson in gentleness to capture a young bird without frightening it, but if successfully done, your bird is practically tame. If even a young bird is caught after a severe chase, it is likely to be days, weeks, and even months, before the effects of its fright can be obliterated, and I have known one case of a young robin that had not recovered from the effect of such treatment in connec- tion with its capture after more than a year. I have one reason for mentioning these facts. It is not th
. Nature study and life. Nature study. TAMING AND FEEDING BIRDS 353 being swallowed alive. It is a rare lesson in gentleness to capture a young bird without frightening it, but if successfully done, your bird is practically tame. If even a young bird is caught after a severe chase, it is likely to be days, weeks, and even months, before the effects of its fright can be obliterated, and I have known one case of a young robin that had not recovered from the effect of such treatment in connec- tion with its capture after more than a year. I have one reason for mentioning these facts. It is not that I wish children to catch and tame birds to keep in cages. One tame bird at liberty about a home is worth a hundred in cap- tivity. The reason is, in a word, that thousands of fledgelings yearly leave the nest a day or two before their wings are quite strong enough to fly, and fall a prey to cats. No work in the entire nature course is more valuable either in humanizing influences for the children or in practical service in fostering and increas' ing our valuable bird life than this tiding of the little orphans over these first hard days out of the nest. With our rapidly decreasing bird life, the children owe this work to the birds, to the community, and to. Fig. 141. A (Ujuv Orj'han's IRime FOR A Day or Two until the Wings GRriw .Strng (Photograph by Myvon W. Stickney). 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 Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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