. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. COASTING IN FOR A PERFECT LANDING The female is approaching a nest built in the sand dunes. Once a nestinf? place is chosen, the birds are most persistent. An instance is recorded of a pair of ospreys which selected a telephone pole as a home site, and in spite of the fact that the nest was torn down several times by harassed linemen, the birds continued to rebuild. Finally a new pole was set up to one side and the wires moved to it, leaving the birds in triumphant possession of their favored BRINGING A MFAE HOME FOR Tll
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. COASTING IN FOR A PERFECT LANDING The female is approaching a nest built in the sand dunes. Once a nestinf? place is chosen, the birds are most persistent. An instance is recorded of a pair of ospreys which selected a telephone pole as a home site, and in spite of the fact that the nest was torn down several times by harassed linemen, the birds continued to rebuild. Finally a new pole was set up to one side and the wires moved to it, leaving the birds in triumphant possession of their favored BRINGING A MFAE HOME FOR TllE FAMIEY The osprey will not carry a fish tail-first, presumably because a head-first hold affords better control of the jerking, twisting pr^. 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 Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
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