VI 



THE DAY FLYERS 



SOME birds travel only by day; others, only 

 by night; while a smaller number travel 

 both by day and night. 



The day flyers are strong of wing. Many of 

 them live in the open, in the fields or marshes 

 and along the beaches. Or if their home is in 

 the trees, they do not hesitate to leave them, and 

 often make long flights in their search for food. 

 All the birds which gather nightly in roosts, 

 like Robins, Crackles, Swallows, Swifts, and 

 Crows, are day flyers. Blue Jays, Waxwings, 

 Bluebirds, many of the Finches, like Crossbills, 

 Redpolls, and Snowbuntings, and even the tiny 

 Humming-birds travel by day. "But," you may 

 well ask, "why should not all birds travel when 

 they have light to see the way, and sleep at night 

 as they do when they are not migrating?" 



The answer is that only those birds venture 

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