. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . suitable places as far north asPort Huron, Owosso, Ionia andGrand Rapids, but north ofthis latitude it becomes in-frequent or unknown. A. Eddy states that ithas not been taken in Baycounty so far as he knows. took a single specimenin Kalkaska county, May 2,1898, but says it is not commonthere. Kneeland records it forKeweenaw Point in h
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . suitable places as far north asPort Huron, Owosso, Ionia andGrand Rapids, but north ofthis latitude it becomes in-frequent or unknown. A. Eddy states that ithas not been taken in Baycounty so far as he knows. took a single specimenin Kalkaska county, May 2,1898, but says it is not commonthere. Kneeland records it forKeweenaw Point in his list of1859, and Major Boies reporteda single one seen on the River (Hay Lake), inChippewa county, but these arethe only reports from the UpperPeninsula. The Green Heron enters thestate from the south about thefirst of May, the exact datevarying about a week eitherway according to season and locality. Nesting begins before the middle of May, and from the factthat occupied nests are occasionally found in July it seems hkely that asecond brood is reared sometimes. It gets its common name of Fly-up-the-creek from its abundancealong the wooded shores of our slow streams and the manner in which it. ^^1 Fig. 35. Green Heron. From Baird, Brewer and Ridgways Water Birds of North America. (Little, Brown & Co.)
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