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a brood. They are free to go or come 
a.s they like. Individuals whose first 
attempt at nesting has proved a failure 
and perhaps others whose erstwhile 
nesting ground has remained ice-bound 
through this particular summer, likely 
also experience no cessation of the mi- 
gration instinct, but sweep south again 
with the first shortening days. 
On Long Island there are always a 
certain number of individual ducks and 
gulls belonging to species which breed 
only further north, that do not attempt 
the risks and responsibilities of migra- 
tion and house-keeping, but remain 
with us during the summer. This seems 
not to be true of shore-birds. Though 
the north-bound and south-bound waves 
succeed so closely, one upon the other, 
the division between the two remains 
marked. One spring the ringneck 
plover lingered so late at Long Beach 
that it there met the first least sand- 
pipers coming back out of the north. 
Did it join them and turn back, or did 
its northward impulse continue for an- 
other ten days, when it would prob- 
ably have met the return movement of 
its own kind? At least data is insuf- 
ficient to claim that this bird ever 
spends the entire summer with us. 
Farther south on grounds where it reg- 
ularly passes the winter there is proof 
ftiat occasional individuals of this and 
two or three other species remain 
through the summer without attempt- 
ing a northward flight. 
The routes that the birds travel to 
and from their northern breeding 
grounds are not identical. Many which 
follow the Mississippi Valley north in 
spring return along the Atlantic sea- 
board in late summer or fall. The 
golden plover even in the days of its 
abundance was a rare bird on the coast 
in spring, as it migrated up the Missis- 
sippi Valley north through the interior. 
Its fall flight took it across the ocean 
from Nova Scotia to the Lesser Antilles 
and South America, and when Septem- 
ber storms were met with en route it 
appeared at certain points of shore in 
great numbers. The lesser yellowlegs, 
which is numerous on the coastal 
marshes when bound south, is rare 
there in spring as it follows the Missis- 
sippi Valley north at that season. 
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Thus, we find shore-birds follow- 
ing the swing of the waves, the 
tides and the weather. The majority 
of species follow the swing of the sea- 
sons also, sun tides as well as moon 
tides, and individuals of some which 
have bred in the far north may pass 
the northern winter in Argentina or 
Peru, enjoying long daylight through- 
out the year. 
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