. Birds of Arkansas . ften called blue crane, is a fairly commonsummer resident and a few remain during the winter. It has beenobserved in the breeding season at Clinton, Walker Lake, Turrell,and Wilmot, and in fall and winter at Fayetteville, Fort Smith, MudLake, and Menasha Lake. It is most common in the bottomlands ofthe eastern part of the State, and at Walker Lake there is a largerookery containing several hundred nesting pairs. I visited thiscolony on May 4 and 5, 1910, and found the birds in the midst oftheir breeding season. The nests were concentrated in an area of afew acres in the m
. Birds of Arkansas . ften called blue crane, is a fairly commonsummer resident and a few remain during the winter. It has beenobserved in the breeding season at Clinton, Walker Lake, Turrell,and Wilmot, and in fall and winter at Fayetteville, Fort Smith, MudLake, and Menasha Lake. It is most common in the bottomlands ofthe eastern part of the State, and at Walker Lake there is a largerookery containing several hundred nesting pairs. I visited thiscolony on May 4 and 5, 1910, and found the birds in the midst oftheir breeding season. The nests were concentrated in an area of afew acres in the middle of a big cypress swamp in which the water wasat that time from 3 to 5 feet deep. They were placed near the topsof the larger trees, usually at a point where several limbs forked,and single trees contained from 1 to 10 nests. A few nests at thisdate contained eggs, but the great majority were occupied by young i Forest and Stream, XIX, p. 286,1882. Bui. 38, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Fig. 1.—Cypress Swamp, Walker Lake, Arkansas. Site of a Large Heron Rookery.
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