BIRDS 



(Chapter 10) 



1. Make a list of birds you can name at sight. What 

 do you know of the feeding and nesting habits of each 

 of these? 



2. Make a list of the birds that remain over winter 

 in your neighborhood. What birds migrate? Where dD 

 they go, and why? 



3. Keep a watch for birds that you do not recognize 

 and take notice of their habits. Get a bird book and see 

 if you can identify them. 



4. Make a list of birds that search for food on the 

 leaves of trees ; of birds that catch flying insects ; of birds 

 that search for insects in the bark of trees ; of birds that 

 cat weed seeds. 



5. If the damage done by insects in your community 

 is 30 cents an acre, how much would that amount to 

 on your farm? 



6. If there are four birds on every acre, how many 

 birds would there be on your farm? In your township? 



7. If each bird eats 50 insects a day, how many in- 

 sects would be destroyed in your township during the 

 months of June, July and August? 



8. If 30,000 insects fill a peck measure, how many 

 pecks of insects would the birds of your township eat 

 during the three summer months? 



9. Read Longfellow's poem entitled **The Birds of 

 Killihgworth.*' 



[Colored pictures of all birds can be obtained from the publishers 

 of this book — a. Flanagan company, Chicago. Size 7x9 inches. 

 2 cents each.] 



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