Nests and Eggs of American Birds (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Nests and Eggs of American Birds The robin is distributed in the breeding season over the whole United States., excepting the extreme south, and over the most of British America. Everywhere it is one of the earliest birds to nestle, and in the southern part of its range raises two or more broods in a season. In the middle states the robins have paired by April 1, and have begun to build their homes before the middle of the month. As far north as Detroit, fresh eggs are to be had the second and third weeks of April in abundance, while even on the upper Missouri and at Puget Sound, the first broods of young are out early in June, and a second brood prepared for. The situation of the nest is extremely varied, and little concealment seems to be attempted. A fork, or the upper surface of a large limb, in an old orchard tree or garden evergreen, is a favorite site, but woodland trees, the protruding end of a fence-rail, the top of a pillar, a stimp, the ground or a ledge of rocks, the interior of a well, the ribs of a fossil megatherium in a college cabinet, the broken-out hole of a woodpecker or squirrel, or even a bush in the midst of a colony of noisy blackbirds, have all been frequently occupied. Occasionally they will build in companies, as in a case at Danvers, Mass., where fully a dozen pairs built their nests on the plate which supported the rafters of a kiln-house. 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.