HUNTING WITH A MICROPHONE 



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WILD TURKEY GOBBLERS STRUTTED UNCONCERNEDLY BEFORE THE MICROPHONE 



With corn and peanuts the birds were baited to this clearing in the forest on the Colonel Thomp- 

 son estate at Thomasville, Georgia, by Herbert Stoddard and Albert Stringer. The sound truck and 

 cameras were concealed in blinds built two weeks before. 











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LESSER PRAIRIE CHICKENS CROUCH FOR ATTACK WITH WARLIKE GOBBLES 



In spring the males repair to flat-topped knolls in groups of from four to as many as 40. Each 

 bird sets up a little domain some 25 feet square and proceeds to fight with all his neighbors I bus 

 the boundaries become fixed, and each learns to respect the rights of others, so that when the females 

 arrive after six weeks of battle, there is no grand rush (page 711). 



