﻿A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 

 DEVOTED TO THE BTUDV AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



O r r I O I A L O w <* A I 



Vol. VIII 



September October, 1906 



No. 5 



The Home-life of the Red-tailed Hawk 



By RQBJER7 w. HEGNJSR 



Tf IE large size and early nesting activities oi the Red tailed 

 make it one of the birds most eagerly soughl for by bird sti 

 Its nest is built before 

 most of the other birds begin 

 their mating operations and at a 

 when the ornithologist s 

 enthusiasm is at its height. For 

 many years the Red-tail in the 

 vicinity of Decorah Iowa offered 



to rri': an outlet for m youthful i 



ardor, and later, when he camera 

 was rect< toward the study of 

 bird -life, this big raptor received 

 Its full share of attent on 



I have records in my note 



book of eighteen nests tl al w< r< 



examined during a per od of s / 



years r )als basi woo< bird and 



■ •' es were most often < hosen 



■ /. ■ • h to build altho igh elm, 



hickory and poj ar are also n tl e 



list. E ive of the i Port 



feet from the ground five wen 



. . , . ,. ,,. . ... . ... eight 



tanged between - .>■ ■ 

 eighty 'J he largesl ne t foun< 

 was three ai one-half fe< I in 

 diameter two • e-half 



feet thick It .'• as i a larg basi 

 wood tree and had been ised 



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dents 



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