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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * NESTING TIME “There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late, She takes some honest gander for a mate;” There live no birds, however bright or plain, But rear a brood to take their place again. —C. C. M. UITE [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. April, 1897 No. 4 * Amateur Photography. MATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY is the most delightful pastime one can indulge in. Aside from the pleasure and amusement derived, it cultivates the artistic taste, the love of nature, is a source of instruction, and may be made to serve many [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. April, 1897 No. 4 * THE PIEDBILL GREBE. Boys and Girls: This is the first time I’ve been on land for several weeks. I am sure you can’t think of any other kind of bird who can say that. Sometimes I don’t go on land for [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. April, 1897 No. 4 * THE CALIFORNIA WOODPECKER. I may not be as pretty a bird as my red-headed cousin but I’m just as busy. My home is in the west among the pines on the mountains. I do not visit the east at all. Of [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Eungella Honeyeater ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 4/22/12 Well, team, many thanks, your moral and spiritual support have done it again: here is the Eungella Honeyeater, photographed last Friday after some diligent searching. The field guides say: ‘noisy, wary, elusive’ and that I would agree is a good [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Cape Petrel ~ by Ian Montgomery My records show that no Petrel and only one Shearwater (Buller’s) has ever featured as bird of the week. That’s partly because, until recently, I didn’t have many photos of members of this family of seabirds (Procellaridae) but that has been largely corrected [...]

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From Col. F. M. Woodruff Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. April, 1897 No. 4 * THE AMERICAN CROSS BILL. MERICAN CROSSBILLS are notable for their small size, being considered and described as dwarfs of the family. Their food consists exclusively of pine, fir, and larch, which accounts for the fact that [...]

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