BIRD BIOGRAPHIES 



WINTER BIRDS 

 Permanent Residents 



AND 



Winter Visitors 



Most people are surprised to learn that about sixty- 

 species of birds may be seen in the north-central part 

 of Eastern North America during the winter months. 

 Many of us, if questioned, would affirm that sparrows, 

 crows, and jays are the only winter birds to be found. 

 If some one opens for us the door which leads out into 

 the great bird-world, we may say, as did the writer of 

 the old couplet: 



"I hearing get, who had but ears, 

 And sight, who had but eyes before," 



and we may then find, even during the winter season, a 

 surprising wealth of bird-life to enrich our own. 



In spite of wings that will bear them immeasurable dis- 

 tances, birds seem to have unusual loyalty to their native 

 haunts, and they stay in the North until hunger impels 

 them to seek friendlier climes. Those that remain may 

 be grouped according to the kind of food upon which 

 they subsist during the winter: first, birds that eat animal 

 food; second, birds that eat vegetable food; and third, 



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