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NATURE-STUDY 



Scratching Birds : Chicken, turkey, quail, grouse, prairie 

 hen, peacock. 



Robbers: Hawk, golden eagle, bald eagle; snowy owl, 

 great horned owl, screech owl, barred owl. 



Climbers: Flicker, sap sucker, downy woodpecker, red- 

 headed woodpecker. 



Perchers and Song Birds: Kingbird, crow, bluejay, 

 common blackbird, yellow-headed blackbird, red-winged 

 blackbird, oriole, cowbird, meadow-lark, bobolink, indigo- 

 bird, rose-breasted grosbeak, cardinal, song sparrow, junco 

 or snowbird, thistlebird, canary, English sparrow, scar- 

 let tanager, barn-swallow, bank-swallow, martin, waxwing, 

 shrike, summer yellowbird, zebrabird, catbird, house wren, 

 brown thrasher, thrush, robin, bluebird. 



Miscellaneous: Dove, pigeon, parrot, kingfisher, whip- 

 poorwill, chimney-swift, humming-bird, ostrich. 



When the birds begin to return from the South, in Febru- 

 ary or March, make a bird calendar on the black-board or in 

 notebooks : 



Bird Calendar 



The calendar may stimulate the children to make personal 

 observations. Be reasonably sure that the birds are reported 

 correctly. Often children and others name birds incorrectly 

 through ignorance or careless observation. 



Toward the end of the migration period the calendar should 

 be examined, and conclusions drawn from it. Note the kind 

 of birds that return first, those that come last. Try to make 



