Excerpt from Wild Birds in City Parks: Being Hints on Identifying Birds, Prepared Primarily for the Spring Migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago Woodpecker: climb up and down the trunks of trees bracing with their tails and tapping the bark vigorously; Nuthatches are smaller than woodpeckers and have much the same habit of climbing up and down tree-trunks but with a freer wig-wagging motion, often de scending head downward; Flycatchers sit erect with drooping tails, watching alertly for insect prey upon which they pounce in ...
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Excerpt from Wild Birds in City Parks: Being Hints on Identifying Birds, Prepared Primarily for the Spring Migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago Woodpecker: climb up and down the trunks of trees bracing with their tails and tapping the bark vigorously; Nuthatches are smaller than woodpeckers and have much the same habit of climbing up and down tree-trunks but with a freer wig-wagging motion, often de scending head downward; Flycatchers sit erect with drooping tails, watching alertly for insect prey upon which they pounce in mid-air, afterwards returning to their perch; Swallows skim through the air in graceful and long sustained flights; Sparrows have stout seed-cracking bills, feed upon the ground, seldom fly high or far at a time and are for the most part fine songsters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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