Bird Neighbors | Page 9

Chickadees are partial to tree-tops, especially to the highest
pine cones, on which they hang fearlessly. Cheerful, constant residents, retreating to the
deep woods only to nest. Tufted Titmouse. Chickadee.
Family Sylviidae: KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS
The kinglets (Regulinae) are very small greenish-gray birds, with highly colored crown
patch, that are seen chiefly in autumn, winter, and spring south of Labrador. Habits active;
diligent flitters among trees and shrubbery from limb to limb after minute insects.
Beautiful nest builders. Song remarkable for so small a bird. Golden-crowned Kinglet.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
The one representative of the distinctly American subfamily of gnatcatchers
(Polioptilinae) that we have, is a small blue-gray bird, whitish below. It is rarely found
outside moist, low tracts of woodland, where insects abound. These it takes on the wing
with wonderful dexterity. It is exceedingly graceful and assumes many charming postures.
A bird of trees, nesting in the high branches. A bird of strong character and an exquisitely
finished though feeble songster. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
Family Turdidae: THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC.
This group includes our finest songsters. Birds of moderate size, stout build; as a rule,
inhabitants of woodlands, but the robin and the bluebird are notable exceptions. Bills
long and slender, suitable for worm diet. Only casual fruit-eaters. Slender, strong legs for
running and hopping. True thrushes are grayish or olive-brown above; buff or whitish
below, heavily streaked or spotted. Bluebird. Robin. Alice's Thrush. Hermit Thrush.
Olive-backed Thrush. Wilson's Thrush (Veery). Wood Thrush.
Order Columbae, PIGEONS AND DOVES
Family Columbidae: PIGEONS AND DOVES
The wild pigeon is now too rare to be included among our bird neighbors; but its
beautiful relative, without the fatally gregarious habit, still nests and sings a-coo-oo-oo to
its devoted mate in unfrequented corners of the farm or the borders of woodland.
Delicately shaded fawn-colored and bluish plumage. Small heads, protruding breasts.
Often seen on ground. Flight strong and rapid, owing to long wings. Mourning or
Carolina Dove.
II. HABITATS OF BIRDS
BIRDS OF THE AIR CATCHING THEIR FOOD AS THEY FLY
Acadian Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher,
Say's Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Kingbird, Phoebe. Wood Pewee, Purple
Martin, Chimney Swift, Barn Swallow, Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Tree Swallow,
Rough-winged Swallow, Canadian Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Wilson's Warbler,
Nighthawk, Whippoorwill, Ruby-throated Humming-bird, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
BIRDS MOST FREQUENTLY SEEN IN THE UPPER HALF OF TREES
Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager, Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Chickadee, Tufted
Titmouse, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, nearly all the Warblers except the Ground Warblers;
Cedar Bird, Bohemian Waxwing, the Vireos, Robin, Red Crossbill, White-winged
Crossbill, Purple Grackle, Bronzed Grackle, Redstart, Northern Shrike, Loggerhead
Shrike, Crow, Fish Crow, Raven, Purple Finch, Tree and Chipping Sparrows, Cardinal,
Blue Jay, Kingbird, the Crested and other Flycatchers.

BIRDS OF LOW TREES OR LOWER PARTS OF TREES
Black-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, the Sparrows, the Thrushes, the Grosbeaks,
Goldfinch, Summer Yellowbird and other Warblers; the Wrens, Bluebird, Mocking-bird,
Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Maryland Yellowthroat, Yellow-breasted Chat.
BIRDS OF TREE-TRUNKS AND LARGE LIMBS
Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied
Woodpecker, Flicker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper,
Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
Black-and-white Creeping Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Pine
Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Whippoorwill, Nighthawk.
BIRDS THAT SHOW A PREFERENCE FOR PINES AND OTHER EVERGREENS
Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, the Nuthatches, Brown Creeper, the Kinglets, Pine Warbler,
Black-and-white Creeping Warbler and all the Warblers except the Ground Warblers;
Pine Siskin, Cedar Bird and Bohemian Waxwing (in juniper and cedar trees), Pine
Grosbeak, Red Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill, the Grackles, Crow, Raven, Pine
Finch.
BIRDS SEEN FEEDING AMONG THE FOLIAGE AND TERMINAL TWIGS OF
TREES
The Red-eyed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Solitary Vireo, Yellow-throated
Vireo, Golden-crowned Kinglet. Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Black-billed Cuckoo,
Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Yellow Warbler or Summer Yellowbird, nearly all the Warblers
except the Pine and the Ground Warblers; the Flycatchers, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
BIRDS THAT CHOOSE CONSPICUOUS PERCHES
Northern Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Kingbird, the Wood Pewee, the Phoebe and other
Flycatchers, the Swallows, Kingfisher, Crows, Grackles, Blue Jay and Canada Jay; the
Song, the White-throated, and the Fox Sparrows; the Grosbeaks, Cedar Bird, Goldfinch,
Robin, Purple Finch, Cowbird, Brown Thrasher while in song.
BIRDS OF THE GARDENS AND ORCHARDS.
Bluebird, Robin; the English, Song, White-throated, Vesper, White-crowned, Fox,
Chipping, and Tree Sparrows; Phoebe, Wood Pewee, the Least Flycatcher, Crested
Flycatcher, Kingbird, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush, Mocking-bird, Catbird, House
Wren; nearly all the Warblers, especially at blossom time among the shrubbery and fruit
trees; Cedar Bird, Purple Martin, Eaves Swallow, Barn Swallow, Purple Finch, Cowbird,
Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Purple Grackle, Bronzed Grackle, Blue Jay, Crow, Fish
Crow, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, the Woodpeckers, Flicker, the
Nuthatches, Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, the Cuckoos, Mourning Dove, Junco, Starling.
BIRDS OF THE WOODS
The Warblers almost without exception; the Thrushes, the Woodpeckers, the Flycatchers,
the Winter and the Carolina Wrens, the Tanagers, the Nuthatches and Titmice, the