Bird Architecture 



CARPENTERS IN FEATHERS 



Not a few birds which like to hide away in 

 deep holes prefer not to be underground and it they 



Photograph from life by A. L. Irincehorn 



A master carpenter — a flicker at her hole 



do not lind a hollow tree what is there to do but 

 use their stout bills as chisel and hammer to hollow 



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