(iS 



urcK HAWK 



'I'hc (luck haw k ina\' !)(' round 



ucstin*; on tlic Palisades ol' tlic 



Hudson almost within the limits 



of New York City. It huilds 

 nests on the 1('(1<»;('S 



Duck Hawk <''" the towerin*;- 



Group clirts. This hawk' 



is a ncai- relative 



of tiie falcon which was so nmch 



used for huntin«>; in the Middle 



Ao-es. 



In August and September the 



meadows and marshlands in the vi- 

 cinity of Hackensack, New Jersey, are 



teemin«2; with ])ird lif(\ In the group 

 showing these Hackensack 



Hackensack meadows are swallows prepar- 



Group ing to migrate southward, bo- 



bolinks or rice birds in fall plumage 



red-winged blackbirds, rails and the wood duck. 

 The wild turke^^ is a native of America and was 



once abundant in the wooded regions of the eastern 



portion of the United States, but is now very rare. It 

 differs in color from the Mexican bird, the 



Wild Turkey ancestor of our common barnyard turkey. 



Group which was introduced from Mexico into Europe Tems 



about 1530 and was brought by the colonists Cobb's island Group 



to America. (Reproduced from studies near Slaty Forks. West Vir- 

 ginia.) 



The gn^at bluc^ heron usually nests in trees. The bird flies with its 

 neck curved back on its body and because of this habit can 

 readily be distinguished from the crane with which it is 

 fre(iu(^ntly confounded. (Reproduced from studies near St. 

 Lucie, Florida.) 

 'bonnets" or yellow pond lily swamps with cypresses and 

 cabbage ])almettoes, the shy water turkey builds its nest. 

 It receives the name "turkey" from its turkey-like tail and 

 the title "snake-bird" from its habit of swinnning with 

 only th(» long slender neck al)ove water. (Reproduced 



from studies near St. Lucie, Florida.) 



Florida Great 

 Blue Heron 

 Group 



In the 



Water 

 Turkey or 

 "Snake-bird 

 Group 



