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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Birds Battle For Love In Streets Of Village.

     At Libertyville Monday morning, a combat to the death was witnessed between two golden shafter flickers. The birds, both males, attacked each other in mid-air and fell to the middle of the street fighting furiously.      There they continued their combat quite unmindful of teams or pedestrins until one of them received a blow […]

A Greateful Catbird.

     A woman in Minneapolis tells a curious story of bird life which shows a phase of sociability in a wild bird’s make-up. She has always fed the birds in winter weather, and never allowed them disturbed on her premises. She had a fine canary, which, in pleasant weather, always had a window from which […]

Saved by an Albatross.

     The following story is another example of the truth that is stranger than fiction.      During a voyage made by the bark Gladstone London to Sydney, in Australia, on the 22d of October, while the vessel was in latitude forty-two degrees south, and longitude ninety degrees east, a seaman fell overboard from the starboard […]

Lightning Kills Fifty Birds.

     Red Oak, Ill., Oct.-More than fifty blackbirds that had taken refuge in a poplar tree were killed when a bolt of lightning struck the tree.

Cannibalistic Sea Gulls.

     It is not generally realized how great an enemy the sea gull is to smaller birds. An observer ventures the opinion that the reason why small migrants invariably cross the sea by night is that otherwise they would be simply exterminated by gulls. Sometimes it happens that a change in the wind delays the […]

Bird Doesn’t Have To Fly.

Washington Specimen Uses the Street Car as His Particular Means of Transportation.      Now that spring is here, it may interest bird lovers to know that at least one bird has solved the problem of transportation without the use of wings.      Birds are famous for their migrations, but hitherto they always have used wings. […]

Repulsive Birds.

     The greatest bird gourmand is the vulture of southeast Europe. Seven vultures can strip the carcass of a horse in half an hour. After such a meal, they can only fly a few yards. They stand with puffed-out bodies, drooping wings, and blood-shot eyes, uttering hideous cries.

Lives Alone With Birds.

     At the extreme northerly point of the Shetlands- a place nearer the pole than Petrograd-is a small, lonely hut, where H. Edwardson of London lives every spring with the sea birds as almost sole companions. For 33 years he has occupied this hut from spring to autumn. For many years he has been the […]

White Blackbird Returns.

     People living near Fox Lake have several times this spring noticed a white blackbird among others of its species flying about the marshy places which abound in that region. The bird is reported to be absolutely white with the exception of the regular red spot which is on the wings of all males. Last […]

“Jack,” Pet Crow, Believed To Have Been Murdered.

 Crow Which Never Missed a Religious Meeting Held in Zion City is Missing. Shame Cry Crusaders. Hundreds of Zionites Mourn Bird Whose Attendance at Services Was Marked.      Zion City, Dec. 12,-“Jack,” the pet crow, which has attended the crusade meetings held twice daily in front of the F. B. Cook factory, has been assassinated. […]