DUCK HAWK 



Duck Hawk 

 Group 



Hackensack 



Meadow 



Group 



The (hick hawk may be found 



nestmg on the Pahsades of tlie 



Hudson ahnost within tlie Huiits 



of New York City. It huilds 

 nests on the ledges 

 of the towering 

 chfYs. This hawk is- 



a near rehitive of the falcon which 



was so much used for hunting in 



the ^liddle Ages. 



In August and September the 



meadows and marshlands in the vi- 

 cinity of Hackensack, New Jersey, are 



teeming with bird life. In the group 



showing these Hackensack 

 meadows are swallows prepar- 

 ing to migrate southward, bo- 

 bolinks or rice birds in fall plumage, 



red-winged blackbirds, rails and the wood duck. 



The wild turkey 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 

 ancestor of our common barnyard turkey, 

 which was introduced from IMexico into Europe 



about 1530 and was brought by the colonists to America. ^^^^^ 



(Reproduced from studies near Slaty Forks, West Virginia.) Cobb's island Group 

 The great blue 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 

 frequently confounded. (Reproduced from studies near St. 

 Lucie, Florida.) 

 In the "bonnets" or yellow pond lily swamps with cypresses and cab- 



-y^ater bage palmettoes, the shy water turkey builds its nest. It 



Turkey or receives the name "tiu'key" from its turkey-like tail and the 



"Snake-bird" title "snake-bird" from its habit of swimming with only the 

 ^^^P long slender necls above water. (Reproduced from studies 



near St. Lucie, Florida.) 



WUd Turkey 

 Group 



Florida Great 

 Blue Heron 

 Group 



