. Guide leaflet. s of the world have been slaughtered,are worn by both sexes. They are acquired prior to the nesting seasonand constitute the birds wedding costume, to be displayed as the pose ofthe bird in the group indicates. As the season advances and they be-come frayed and dirty, they are shed. Aigrettes are to be secured, therefore, only during the period ofreproduction, and this fact, added to the Herons communal habits,accounts for the surprising rapidity with which the birds have beenbrought to the verge of extinction. Concealed in the rookery, it is asimple thing to shoot the parents
. Guide leaflet. s of the world have been slaughtered,are worn by both sexes. They are acquired prior to the nesting seasonand constitute the birds wedding costume, to be displayed as the pose ofthe bird in the group indicates. As the season advances and they be-come frayed and dirty, they are shed. Aigrettes are to be secured, therefore, only during the period ofreproduction, and this fact, added to the Herons communal habits,accounts for the surprising rapidity with which the birds have beenbrought to the verge of extinction. Concealed in the rookery, it is asimple thing to shoot the parents as they return with food for theiryoung; and in the early days of pluming it was not unusual for a manto kill several hundred birds at a sitting. A- a result of the activity of the National Association of AudubonSocieties in guarding rookeries, these bird- have continued i increase innumbers, and in midsummer, after their Qest Ing Beason, it is not unusualto see them in the vicinity of New York (it v. 25. THE TURKEY BUZZARD Background by Hobart Nichols. Birds by Herbert Lang. 11. TURKEY BUZZARD WIDELY distributed over temperate and tropical America, theTurkey Vulture—or, as it is more commonly called, TurkeyBuzzard—is a familiar bird in many parts of the South, whereit may be seen gravely stalking about in search of food or gracefullysoaring in wide circles overhead. As Bendire has written: They look their best aloft as their flight isexceedingly easy and graceful, while the apparent absence of all effort asthey sail in stately manner overhead, in ever changing circles, and with-out any apparent movement of their well shaped wings, makes themreally attractive objects to watch; but let them once descend to theground or alight in a tree, and attractiveness ceases ; now they are any-thing but prepossessing, and it requires no effort to place them wherethey properly belong—among the scavengers of the soil. The locality shown is Plummers Island, in the Potomac, just aboveWash
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