The Red-Winged Blackbird

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Excerpt from The Red-Winged Blackbird: A Study in the Ecology of a Cat Tail MarshThe cat-tail marsh, which is here considered, is as peculiar and distinctive as any environment available for study. Great expanses of sedge, rush, and cat-tail conceal an assem blage of birds which are as interesting as they are little known birds that are little known because of the difficulties in their study, that are seldom seen because of their secretive habits, yet withal, birds that are as unique in their adaptations, as varied in their structure and habits, as any other similar group. There are the Rails, the Coot, and the Gallinule constituting an ecological unit in themselves, the Marsh Wren, Swamp Sparrow, and Red-winged Blackbird another, the Least and American Bitterns, and the Pied-billed Grebe still others. All are strictly marsh birds which seem to find their optimum environment in the cat-tail marsh. With some of these birds, adaptation to a marsh life is very evident, but with others, it is quite obscure. The long legs of the Virginia Rail for wading, the long toes for grasping the ¿oating debris and distributing the weight, the long bill for probing, the color, the compressed shape - like that of a ¿ea - for slipping through the dense vegetation, are decided specializations for a life in this peculiar environment. The Swamp Sparrow and the Redwing, on the other hand, show no striking modifications.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.