[bcbirdclub] Old Bird News

From: "Don" <donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:32:03 -0400
I've been reading old newspapers in the Library of Congress on the internet.
and I ran across some interesting bird news.

 

1908 

.         In Louisiana a million Robins a year were being eaten

.         A Cedar waxwing was called a Cedar Bird and they were observed
playing a game by catching snowflakes

.         A Horned Lark was called a Shore Lark

.         Cowbirds (Called Cow Buntings) were laying eggs in yellow warbler
nests. The yellow warblers were observed building a new bottom over the
cowbird eggs.

 

I thought this would hit home; The year list from the 1917 Big Stone Gap Boy
Scouts.  An impressive 101 species. Spelling is the same as in the newspaper
article:

 

Black Duck,

Mallard Duck,

Great Blue Heron,

Green Heron,

Night Heron,

Sora Heron,

Spotted Sandpiper,

American Woodcock,

Killdeer Plover,

Quail,

Ruffed Grouse,

Mourning Dove,

Turkey Vulture,

Sparrow Hawk,

Sharp-Shined Hawk,

Red-shouldered Hawk,

Ked-tailed Hawk,

Screech Owl,

Great Horned Owl,

Yellow hilled Cuckoo,

Belted Kingfisher,

Downy Woodpecker,

Hairy Woodpecker, ,

Flicker,

Red-headed Woodpecker,

Whippoorwill,

Night Hawk,

Ruby-throated Hummingbird,

Pileated Woodpecker (Wood Hen)

Chimney Swift,

Created Flycatcher

Tyrant Flycatcher (King Bird)

Acadian  flycatcher,

Wood Pewee,

Phoebe, 

Horned Lark,

American t Crow,

Raven,

Blue Jay,

Purple Crackle,

Red-wing Blackbird,

Bobolink,

Indigo Diluting

Cowbird,

Baltimore Oriole,

Meadow Lark,

Purple Finch

Song Sparrow,

Field Sparrow,

White-throated Sparrow,

Cold Finch

Grasshopper Sparrow,

Vesper Sparrow,

Chipping Sparrow,

State-colored Junco,

Cardinal Grosbeak,

Rose-breasted Grosbeak,

Scarlet Tanager,

Summer Tanager,

Bank Swallow,

Barn Swallow,

Cliff Swallow,

Rough-winged Swallow,

Tree Swallow,

Purple Martin,

Northern Shrike,

Red-eyed Vlero,

Yellow-breasted Viero

Cedar Wax wing,

Black-throated Blue Warbler,

Bay-breasted Warbler,

Cheat nut-aided Warbler,

Yellow throated Warbler,

Orange-crowned Warbler,

Worm-eating Warbler,

Blackpoll Warbler,

Hooded Warbler,

Parula Warbler,

Yellow Palm Warbler,

Yellow Warbler,

Tennessee Warbler,

Myrtle Warbler,

Black and White Warbler,

American Kestrel

Oven-bird,

Yellow-breasted Chat,

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

Louisiana Water Thrush,

Maryland Yellow-throat,

Brown Thrasher,

Catbird,

Mockingbird,

Carolina Wren,

Bewicks Wren

Brown Creeper,

White-breasted Nuthatch,

Tufted Titmouse,

Wood Thrush,

Hermit Thrush,

Bluebird,,

American Robin
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