The Audubon Societies 



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Special Topics. — Tools of the bird; protective coloring; immature birds; 

 kinds of flight; nest-architecture; bird-gestures and dances; how and where 

 birds sleep; game-laws; bird-reservations; commercial uses of birds. 



Reading and drawing exercises and color-work for lower grades are excel- 

 lent. Bird-distribution is easily correlated with geography; making nesting- 

 boxes and lunch-counters with manual training field descriptions with English, 



OUTDOOR WORK 



January. Winter Visitants. Bird lunch-counters. Where birds find food. 



February. Feeding Winter Residents. Finding tracks of birds and animals. 



March. Early Spring Transients. Learning weather-signs and migration 

 movements. 



April. Transients. "Waves" of migration. Spring food-supply. 



May. Late Transients. Early nesting species. Song. Where birds bathe 

 and drink. 



June. Summer Residents. Choice of nesting-site. Nest-building. Putting 

 up birds' drinking-fountains. 



July. Late nesting species. Second broods. Food of young birds. 



August. Summer Visitants. DecUne of song. Change of food. Fruit-foods. 



September. Early Fall Transients. Collection of weed seed and insects. 



October. Fall Transients. Irregular Migrants. Fall food-supply. 



November. Late Fall Transients. Putting up nesting-boxes. 



December. Permanent Residents. Christmas-day census. Putting up birds' 

 Christmas-tree. 



Group 

 Age by 

 years 



Jan. . . 

 Feb... 

 March 



April. . 



May. . 



June . 



July.. 



August 



Sept. , 

 Oct. . 



Nov. 



Dec. 



First 

 5-7 



English Sparrow 

 Domestic Pigeon 

 C row- 

 Robin 

 Song Sparrow 



Baltimore Oriole 



( Catbird 



<, Brown Thrasher 

 (Mockingbird 



Hummingbird 



j Bronze Grackle 

 I Purple Grackle 

 Flicker 



Blue Jay 



Chickadee 



Second 

 7-g 



Third 

 9-1 1 



Downy Wood- 

 pecker 



American Owl 

 Bluebird 



Chipping Sparrow 



Meadowlark 



( Barn Swallow 

 < Eave Swallow 

 (Bank Swallow 



( Yellow Warbler 

 I Redstart \ 



j Scarlet Tanager 

 I Summer Tanager 



Cedar Waxwing 



American Gold- 

 finch 

 Junco 



White-breasted 

 Nuthatch 



J RuSed Grouse 

 ( Bob-white 

 Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet 



Phoebe 



Red-winged 

 Blackbird 



j Wood Thrush 

 \ Wilson Thrush 

 j Rose-breasted 



Grosbeak 

 (Purple Martin 



Black and White 

 Cieeper 



Chimney Swift 



Kingfisher 



Brown Creeper 

 American Shrike 



American Hawk 



Fourth 

 11-12 



Snow Bunting 

 Redpoll 



Heimit Thrush 



( Towhee 



s White-throated 



( Sparrow 



House Wren 



( Bobolink 

 I Cowbird 



f Kingbird 



1 Wood Pewee 



iNighthawk 

 /Whip-poor-will 

 f Purple Finch 

 ( Cardinal 

 I Screeeh Owl 

 ( American Hawk 

 American Cross- 

 bill 

 Tree Sparrow 



Fifth 

 13-16 



Herring Gull 



American Duck 



\ Canada Goose 

 /American Grebe 



Myrtle Warbler 



Ovenbird 

 Red-eyed Vireo 

 Yellow-throated 

 Vireo 



( American Heron 



, Spotted Sand- 



( piper 



j Indigo Bunting 



/.American Cuckoo 



( Woodcock 



1 Starling 



Vesper Sparrow 



Horned Lark 



f Pine Grosbeak 

 [ EveningGrosbeak 



Note. — Brackets indicate that a choice of species may be made according to local- 

 ity. It is suggested that pictures of common and closely related species be shown and 

 described with reference to distribution and habits. 



