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BIRDS & BIRD WATCHING:
PUBLIC DOMAIN PRODUCTS
Bird Neighbors - Neltje Blanchan
If we have an eye for the picturesque, we place a certain value upon the broad,
strong dash of color in the landscape, given by a flock of crows flapping their
course above a corn-field, against an October sky; but the practical eye of the
farmer looks only for his gun in such a case. To him the crow is an unmitigated
nuisance, all the more maddening because it is clever enough to circumvent every
means devised for its ruin. Nothing escapes its rapacity; fear is unknown to it.
It migrates in broad daylight, chooses the most conspicuous perches, and yet its
assurance is amply justified in its steadily increasing numbers.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
How surely the birds know their enemies! See how the wrens and robins and
bluebirds pursue and scold the cat, while they take little or no notice of the
dog! Even the swallow will fight the cat, and, relying too confidently upon its
powers of flight, sometimes swoops down so near to its enemy that it is caught
by a sudden stroke of the cat's paw. The only case I know of in which our small
birds fail to recognize their enemy is furnished by the shrike--by John
Burroughs
Birds in Town and Village - W. H. Hudson
Just out of hearing of the grasshopper warblers, there was a good-sized pool of
water on the common, probably an old gravel-pit, its bottom now overgrown with
rushes. A sedge warbler, the only one on the common, lived in the masses of
bramble and gorse on its banks; and birds of so many kinds came to it to drink
and bathe that the pool became a favourite spot with me. One evening, just
before sunset, as I lingered near it, a pied wagtail darted out of some low
scrub at my feet and fluttered, as if wounded, over the turf for a space of ten
or twelve yards before flying away.
Our Vanishing Wild Life - William T. Hornaday
Quite unintentionally on his part, Man, the arch destroyer and the most
predatory and merciless of all animal species except the wolves, has rendered a
great service to all the birds that live or nest upon the ground. His relentless
pursuit and destruction of the savage-tempered, strong-jawed fur-bearing animals
is in part the salvation of the ground birds of to-day and yesterday. If the
teeth and claws had been permitted to multiply unchecked down to the present
time, with man's warfare on the upland game proceeding as it has done, scores
upon scores of species long ere this would have been exterminated.
How To Study Birds
Not only does interest in birds cover
all classes of society and shades of opinion, but different people
watch birds in different ways, and to different degrees of
intensity. Thus bird-watchers may range from the person who can name
but half a dozen of the common species of birds, and yet can
appreciate their high aesthetic appeal, to the trained biologist,
whose critical interest is that of the research worker seeking to
gain, from the way birds live, some idea of their place in the
natural order. Between these two extremes there has been fixed in
the past a wide gulf, and a measure of contempt often exists in the
scientist for the so-called "bird-lover" who has the anthropomorphic
outlook, whilst the bird-lover in his turn regards the scientist as
a dust-dry man whose very training and attitude prevent him from
appreciating any of the aesthetic appeal that birds may have.
Actually, there can be few field-ornithologists, however rigid their
scientific attitude, who have not at sometime or other fallen
completely under the spell of birds as gloriously free creatures,
beautiful of form and often of voice, and this spell can be
intensified rather than weakened by a correct and scientific
attitude to bird behaviour. By studying the habits of birds and
interpreting their actions dispassionately on broad scientific
principles, we can arrive at a better understanding of their minds
and emotions, and their place in the green world in which they live.
Then, truly to know them is to love them.
Work comes complete with source
in word doc format as well as pdf version.
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