Identifier: natureneighborse02bant (find matches)
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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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eed seeds and insects, indicating that the bird shouldbe protected. In fact they are highly useful to the farmerby the benefit they confer in the destruction of grubworms, caterpillars, and various kinds of larvae, the secretand deadly enemies of vegetation. It has been estimatedthat in a single season these birds destroy twelve thousandmillions of noxious insects. Redwings are very jealous of their eggs and young,and attack without hesitancy all hawks, crows, or othermarauders with almost as much aggressiveness as does thekingbird. The nests are placed in low bushes on or near the water.Many times the nests are woven to the upright stalks of cat-tails or bulrushes. Dry grass, stems, and strips of rushesare used externally, and the inside is lined with fine stems.Some nests have Indian hemp on the outside, giving themthe appearance of a large yellow warblers nest. The fouror five eggs are light blue, marked with scrawls and streaksof deep purple and black, chiefly about the large end.
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bd 1? BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 289 MEADOWLARK All United States and southern Canada is favored withthe presence of the Meadowlark, sometimes wrongly calledfield-lark. Florida, Georgia, and Alabama are inhabitedby the Southern meadowlark. From Iowa and ^linnesotawestward across the continent in the United States andCanada, the Western meadowlark, a more musical variety,ranges. Southwestern Texas, along the Rio Grande, eastto Louisiana, is the home of the Mexican or Rio Grandemeadowlark. The true meadowlark occurs from NewYork, New England, and Quebec, west to the States bor-dering the Mississippi on the west. In portions of Iowaand Missouri, both the Western and Eastern meadowlarkmay be found breeding together. Before there is the slightest indication of budding life,except in the redding of the willow stems, this robust littlefellow returns from the South to his favorite meadow orpasture. No bird becomes more attached to a given localitythan this starhng. He weathers many a cold nort

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