Birds That Hunt And Are Hunted Life Histories of One Hundred And Seventy Birds
Birds That Hunt And Are Hunted Life Histories of One Hundred And Seventy Birds
Nellie Blanchan De Graff Mrs 1865 1918 Doubleday
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On alighting, with their wings stretched high above their backs in plover fashion, these true sandpipers remain perfectly still for a minute, turning their slender necks now this way, now that, to reconnoitre, before they gracefully walk or run off to feed, bobbing their heads as if satisfied with the prospect as they go. They must devour grasshoppers by the million another reason why they should be protected. In the nesting season, at least, the mates keep close together when feeding on berrie...s and insects, that, however largely consumed, fail to fatten their slender bodies now. Anxiety, common to all true lovers and devoted parents, keeps them thin. A few blades of dry grass line the merest depression of the ground in some old field or open prairie that answers as a cradle for the four clay colored eggs spotted over with dark brown and clouded with purplish gray shell marks. Funny, top-heavy, fluffy little chicks tumble clumsily about through the grass in June. The Buff -breasted Sandpiper ( Tryngites subruficollis) closely allied to the larger upland "plover, " like it prefers dry fields and grassy prairie lands, although during the migrations it too is often met with on beaches on the coasts of both oceans.
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