APPROXIMATE DATES WHEN BIRDS BEGIN 

 TO NEST 



THESE DATES APPLY TO THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK (wiTHIN ONF 

 HUNDRED MILES OF THE CITV) EXCEPT WHEN THE BIRDS RANGE 

 IS NOT WITHIN THAT AREA, OR WHEN OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 



January : First week. 

 February : Fourth week. 



March : First week. 



Second 

 Third 



Fourth 



Some time during March. 



April : First week. 



Bald Eagle (Fla.) 



Golden Eagle (Cal.) 



Great Horned Owl 



Canada Jay (Me.) 



American Crossbill 



White-tailed Kite (S. C.) 



Marsh Hawk 



Audubon's Caracara 



Barred Owl 



Short-eared Owl (Ohio) 

 474*^ Prairie Horned Lark (Iowa) 

 372 Sawwhet Owl 



Screech Owl 



Ivory-billed Woodpecker (?) 



Black Vulture 



Swallow-tailed Kite 

 339^ Florida Red-shouldered Hawk 

 (Fla.) 



Duck Hawk (Southern States) 



Red Cockaded Woodpecker (?) 



Florida Jay (Fla.) 



Brown-headed Nuthatch 



Mourning Dove 



Sharped-shinned Hawk 



Red-tailed Hawk 



Broad-winged Hawk 

 29 



352 

 349 



484 

 521 

 328 



331 

 362 

 368 

 367 



373 

 292 

 326 

 330 



556 

 395 

 479 

 729 

 316 

 332 

 331 

 343 



