APPROXIMATE DATES WHEN BIRDS BEGIN 



TO NEST 



THESE DATES APPLY TO THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK (wiTHIN ONE 

 HUNDRED MILES OF THE CITV) EXCEPT WHEN THE BIRD'S RANGE 

 IS NOT WITHIN THAT AREA, OR WHEN OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 



January : First week. 

 February : Fourth week. 



March : First week. 



Second 

 Third 



i i 



Fourth 



Some time during March. 



April : First week. 



Bald Eagle (Fla.) 



Golden Eagle (Cal.) 



Great Horned Owl 



Canada Jay (Me.) 



American Crossbill 



White-tailed Kite (S. C.) 



Marsh Hawk 



Audubon's Caracara 



Barred Owl 



Short-eared Owl (Ohio) 

 414b Prairie Horned Lark (Iowa) 



Sawwhet Owl 



Screech Owl 



Ivory-billed Woodpecker C-) 



Black 'Vulture 



Swallow-tailed Kite 

 339a Florida Red-shouldered Hawk 

 (Fla.) 



Duck Hawk (Southern States) 



Red Cockaded Woodpecker (?) 



Florida Jay (Fla.) 



Brown-headed Nuthatch 



Mourning Dove 



Sharped-shinned Hawk 



Red-tailed Hawk 



Broad-winged Hawk 

 29 



352 

 349 

 375 

 484 



S2I 

 328 



33' 

 362 



368 



367 



373 

 392 



330 



356 

 395 

 479 

 L 729 

 316 

 332 

 331 

 343 



