Duck Hawk 

 Group 



Hackensack 



Meadow 



Group 



off the Virginia coast where the 

 birds are now protected by law. 



The duck hawk may be found 

 nesting on the Palisades of the 

 Hudson almost within the limits 

 of New York City. It builds 



nests on the ledges 



of the towering cliffs. 



This hawk is a near 

 relative of the falcon which was so 

 much used for hunting in the Middle 

 Ages. 



In August and September the meadows 

 and marshlands in the vicinity of Hackensack, 

 New Jersey, are teeming with bird life. In 



the group showing these Hackensack 



meadows are swallows preparing to 



migrate southward, bobolinks 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 Terns 



. • Cobb's Island Group 



.Mexico into hurope about loot) and was 



brought by the colonists to America. (Reproduced from studies near 

 Slaty Forks, West Virginia.) 



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 

 Water cabbage palmettoes, the shy water turkey builds its nest. 



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

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

 p the long slender neck above water. (Reproduced from studies 



near St. Lucie, Florida.) 



The sandhill crane builds its nest of reeds in the water. Unlike the 

 herons in this respect, it differs also in its manner of flight, 

 always stretching its neck well out when on the wing. (Re- 

 produced from studies on the Kissimmee Prairies of Florida.) 



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Wild Turkey 

 Group 



Florida Great 

 Blue Heron 

 Group 



Sandhill 

 Crane Group 



