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sort on the foliage, he will surely acknowledge that the 

 walking sticks are able to cover their tracks quite effect- 

 ively from both naturalist and bird. 



Bird enemies of some of the orthopters : 



Grasshoppers. 



Quails Night hawks 



Prairie chickens Bluebirds 



Crows Barn swallows 



Domestic fowls (ducks, Yellow-billed cuckoos 



geese, and chickens) 

 Wild geese and wild ducks Screech owls 



Red- winged blackbirds Blue jays 



Kingbirds House wrens 



Sparrow hawks Brown thrashers 

 Butcher birds 



Crickets. 



Bluebirds Shrikes or butcher birds 



Robins The sparrow family 



Towhees Kingbirds 



Katydids. 



Robins Domestic fowls 



Shrikes 



