BIRDS IN RELATION TO MAN 579 



QUESTIONS 



1. Can you tell from the attractiveness of a bird's appearance 

 whether it is useful or not ? from the song ? 



2. What common birds of your region do you know by name ? 



3. What birds stay in your region the whole year round ? 



4. What birds are the first to come in the spring ? 



5. What ones are the last to leave in the fall ? 



6. What birds are most common in the summer? 



7. What birds pass through without stopping ? 



8. What common insects do birds help to keep in check in your 

 region ? How can you tell ? 



9. What birds are most helpful in keeping insects in check ? How 

 can you tell ? 



10. W^hat common birds are most helpful in keeping weeds in check ? 

 How can you tell ? 



11. What are the most important dangers to the useful birds in your 

 region ? How can these dangers be reduced ? 



12. What is being done to encourage birds in your community ? to 

 protect them ? What more needs to be done ? Who ought to do it ? 



13. What harmful birds are there in your region? What harm do 

 they do ? How can you tell ? What should be done about them ? 



REFERENCE READINGS 



CocKERELL, T. D. A. Zoology, chap, xlviii, Birds. 



Farmers' Bulletin ^ij, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard. 



Farmers' Bulletin 630, Birds Useful to the Farmer. 



Farmers' Bulletin 4qj, The English Sparrow as a Pest. 



Farmers' Bulletin 621, How to Attract Birds in the Eastern United States. 



Farmers' Bulletifi 6og, How to Build Bird Houses. 



Farmers' Bulletin 12 jg, Community Bird Refuges. 



United States Department of Agriculture. Yearbook for 1918. Reprint 



785, Federal Protection of Migratory Birds. 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Circular 261, Purposes of 



Bird Censuses and How to Make Them. 

 Price List 39, Birds and Wild Animals (from Superintendent of 



Documents). 



