Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture Classic Reprint written by F. E. L. Beal and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture It has long been known that birds play an important part in relation to agriculture, but there seems to be a tendency to dwell on the harm they do rather than on the good. Whether a bird is injurious or beneficial depends almost entirely upon what it eats, and in the case of species which are unusually abundant or which depend in part upon the farmer's crops for subsistence the character of the food often becomes a very practical question. If crows or blackbirds are seen in numbers about cornfields, or if woodpeckers are noticed at work in an orchard, it is perhaps not surprising that they are accused of doing harm. Careful investigation, however, often shows that they are actually destroying noxious insects, and also that even those which do harm at one season may compensate for it by eating noxious species at another. Insects are eaten at all times by the majority of land birds, and during the breeding season most kinds subsist largely and rear their young exclusively on this food. When insects are unusually plentiful, they are eaten by many birds which ordinarily do not touch them. Even birds of prey resort to this diet, and when insects are more easily obtained than other fare, the smaller hawks and owls live on them almost entirely. This was well illustrated during the recent plague of Rocky Mountain locusts in the Western States, when it was found that locusts were eaten by nearly every bird in the region, and that they formed almost the entire food of a large majority of the species. Within certain limits, birds feed upon the kind of food that is most accessible. Thus, as a rule, insectivorous birds eat the insects that are most easily obtained, provided they do not have some peculiarly disagreeable property. It is not probable that a bird habitually passes by one kind of insect to look for another which is more appetizing, and there seems little evidence in support of the theory that the selection of food is restricted to any particular species of insect, for it is evident that a bird eats those which by its own method of seeking are most easily obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture Classic Reprint written by F. E. L. Beal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture The Carolina wren (fig. 4) is resident from the Gulf of Mexico north to the southern boundaries of Iowa, Illinois, and Connecticut in the breeding season, but in winter withdraws somewhat farther south. It is a bird of the thicket and undergrowth, preferring to place its nest in holes and crannies but when necessary will build a bulky Structure in a tangle of twigs and vines. Unlike the house wren it does not ordinarily use the structures of man for nesting Sites. It is one of the few American birds that Sing throughout the year. Most birds sing, or try to, in the mating season, but the Carolina wren may be heard pour ing forth his melody of song every month. The writer's first introduction to this bird was in the month of January when he heard gushing from a thicket a song which reminded him of June instead of midwinter. This wren keeps up the reputation of the family as an insect eater, as over nine tenths of its diet consists of insects and their allies. In this investigation of its food there were examined 291 stomachs, representing every month. Their con tents were made up of per cent animal matter, nearly all insects, and per cent vegetable, chiefly seeds. A very marked uniformity in the diet is notice able, the winter season Showing almost as great a consumption of insects as the summer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture written by Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture written by F E Beal and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture written by Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer Classic Reprint written by F. E. L. Beal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer Sparrows are not obtrusive birds, either in plumage, song, or action. There are some 40 species, with nearly as many subspecies, in North America. Not more than half a dozen forms are generally known in any one locality. All the species are more or less migratory, but so widely are they distributed that there is probably no part of the country where some can not be found throughout the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture Farmer s Bulletin No 54 May 1897 written by F. E. L. Beal and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture written by F. E. L. Beal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current publication is a collection of brief abstracts of the results of food studies of about 30 grain and insect-eating birds belonging to 10 different families conducted by the U.S.' Department of Agriculture, who has for some years past been conducting a systematic investigation of the food of species which are believed to be of economic importance. Thousands of birds' stomachs have been carefully examined in the laboratory, and all the available data respecting the food brought together.
Download or read book Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture written by F. E. L. Beal and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two species of cuckoos, the yellow-billed and the black-billed, are common in the United States east of the Plains, and a subspecies of the yellow-billed extends westward to the Pacific. While the two species are quite distinct, they do not differ greatly in food habits, and their economic status is practically the same. An examination of 155 stomachs has shown that these cuckoos are much given to eating caterpillars, and, unlike most birds, do not reject those covered with hair. In fact, cuckoos eat so many hairy caterpillars that the hairs pierce the inner lining of the stomach and remain there, so that when the stomach is opened and turned inside out, it appears to be lined with a thin coating of fur. An examination of the stomachs of 40 black-billed cuckoos, taken during the summer months, showed the remains of 900 caterpillars, 44 beetles, 96 grasshoppers, 100 sawflies, 30 stink bugs, and 15 spiders. In all probability more individuals than these were represented, but their remains were too badly broken for recognition. Most of the caterpillars were hairy, and many of them belonged to a genus that lives in colonies and feeds on the leaves of trees, including the apple tree. One stomach was filled with larvæ of a caterpillar belonging to the same genus as the tent caterpillar, while others contained that species. Other larvæ were those of large moths, for which the bird seems to have a special fondness. The beetles were mainly click beetles and weevils, with a few May beetles. The sawflies were all found in two stomachs, one of which contained no less than 100 in the larval stage.
Download or read book Longfellow s the Birds of Killingworth written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Longfellow's "the Birds of Killingworth" Illustrated, With Introductory Comments, Outline of the Story, Notes, Questions, and Suggestion for Dramatization Teachers should write to the Department Of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and ask for Bulletin no. Thirteen entitled Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture, also Bulletin N O. Fifty-four, Some Common Birds. A magazine called Bird Lore is published at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and costs only one dollar per year. The bulletins from Washington cost nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer written by Charles Lester Marlatt and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of Ontario in Relation to Agriculture Classic Reprint written by Charles W. Nash Toronto and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Birds of Ontario in Relation to Agriculture The agriculturist in the Province of Ontario has annually to suffer great loss from the depredations of two classes of enemies, both individually insignificant, but, by reason of their numbers, very formidable. These are insects and small rodents, chief among the latter being rats and all the animals usually classed as mice. It is very difficult to make anything like a correct estimate of the average damage inflicted upon the farmer by these little animals, but every man engaged in farming knows by sad experience that he continually suffers from their work. The enormous amount of grain they destroy, and the young trees girdled and killed by them are visible to everyone; but the creatures themselves, owing to their nocturnal habits and secretive lives, are comparatively seldom seen. Their enormous increase and consequent capacity for serious mischief is, of course, owing to the fact that man has interfered seriously with the balance of nature, and has thoughtlessly, perhaps, destroyed the principal natural enemies of these creatures. Man himself is almost powerless to stop their ravages to any very great extent. The constant exercise of his ingenuity in trapping, and so forth, results in very little and occupies his time to no purpose. The natural enemies of these animals are gifted with special faculties for their destruction, and so are able to cope with them. Chief among the enemies of this class of farm pests, and the only ones we shall consider now, are the birds of prey. These birds are wonderfully provided by nature with the means to full their part in maintaining the correct balance between the small rodents and the vegetable kingdom. They are in a manner nature's police, and if not destroyed by man would so keep down the numbers of these small four-footed thieves that their plundering would be scarcely noticeable. Our birds of prey may be roughly divided into two classes, the hawks and the owls, the first feeding by day and the other by night. Of the eagles we need say but little. They are now so rarely found in the civilized districts that their influence for good or ill is practically nothing, except upon the game, and of that no doubt, they destroy a large quantity. Of the hawks there are eleven species, occurring regularly in this Province in greater or less abundance every season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Food of Some Well Known Birds of Forest Farm and Garden Classic Reprint written by F. E. L. Beal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Food of Some Well-Known Birds of Forest, Farm, and Garden Most of them are taken in spring and summer and none in winter. A few other insects and spiders amount to less than 1 per cent for each species and make up the remainder of the animal food. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Common Birds of Town and Country written by U. S. National Geographic Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Common Birds of Town and Country: With 114 Illustrations in Color and 52 in Black and White Range: Breeds from eastern North Dakota, central Minnesota, northwestern Michigan, southern Oh tario and southern New Brunswick to central Texas, southern Louisiana, central Alabama and central Georgia; winters from southern Mexico to Panama. The indigo bird is the brightest colored sparrow that visits the north, but one can hardly believe that the sprightly dandy, clad in his rich blue suit, is the mate of the inconspicuous brown bird that seeks assiduously to conceal herself in the leafy cover, as though a bit ashamed of the contrast between her working suit and the holiday garb of her spouse. The indigo is a frequenter of sprout land, of brushy thickets and of Open woodland. And the male is fond of singing his cheerful lay from the topmost twig of a tall shrub or tree, as though challenging the world to produce his equal. For such a dainty bird, the nest is a singularly inartistic structure and very carelessly built. It is placed in the crotch of some low leafy bush and is not at all difficult to find. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Common Birds and How to Know Them Classic Reprint written by John Beveridge Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Common Birds and How to Know Them This is, indeed, a serious dilemma, sufficiently embarrassing and disheartening; but it is to the student arrived at such a despondent frame of mind that the writer hopes to be of use, both with his advice and by means of the plates herewith presented. As for the advice, though of the simplest, it is believed that it will prove effective. It will be given in detail in the following pages; but the most important, if the least startling features of it, may be here briefly stated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bird Life written by Frank M. Chapman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds How unusual it is to meet any one who can correctly name a dozen Of our birds! One may live in the country and still know only two or three of the one hundred and fifty or more kinds Of birds that may be found during the year. Nevertheless, these gay, restless creatures, both by voice and action, constantly invite our attention, and they are far too interesting and beautiful to be ignored. N 0 one to whom Nature appeals should be without some knowledge Of these, the most attractive Of her animate forms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sketches of Some Common Birds Classic Reprint written by P. M. Silloway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of Some Common Birds Now the meadows are blooming with flowers of various colors, And with untaught throats carol the garrulous birds. - longfellow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
