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viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-373) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Introduction: The relations of birds to man -- The methods of studying the food of birds -- The development of economic ornithology -- The vegetable food of birds -- The animal food of birds -- The amount of food consumed by birds -- Birds as regulators of outbreaks of injurious animals -- The relations of birds to predaceous and parasitic insects -- The thrushes and their allies -- The nuthatches, titmice, creepers, and wrens -- The warblers and the vireos -- The shrikes, waxwings, swallows, and tanagers -- The finches and sparrows -- The English sparrow -- The orioles, blackbirds, crows, and jays -- The flycatchers, humming-birds, swifts, and nighthawks -- The woodpeckers, kingfishers, and cuckoos -- The owls -- the hawks, eagles, kites, and vultures -- the pigeons, grouse, and shore-birds -- The water-birds -- The conservation of birds : the non-game-birds -- The conservation of birds : the game-birds -- Preventing the depredations of birds -- Encouraging the presence of birds. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947. Birds in their relations to man. Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1903 (OCoLC)595365900 |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
https://archive.org/details/cu31924022530301/page/n9 Internet Archive, Cornell University |
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https://archive.org/details/birdsintheirrela00wee Free eBook from the Internet Archive |
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https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6928581M Additional information and access via Open Library |