A Distribution List of the Birds of Montana: With Notes on the Migration and Nesting of the Better Known Species (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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While the work of compiling a list such as the present one is often tedious and irksome, yet the original field work on which it is based has given me some. Of the greatest pleasures that I have had, pleasures that only the field ornitholo gist, born with the love of wild birds, can appreciate. Thus, as l have gone over these pages, recording references and migration dates, or working out ranges, I have relieved the tedium by living over in retrospect many happy hours in the field, in what is ornithologically one of the most interesting and wonderful of our states. I have seen again the rolling prairies on a bright June morning, with countless mccown Longsp'urs, rising into the air, and parachuting down into the grass, or a male Curlew, charging with loud protest toward the man who has ventured near his nest. I have seen the prairie ponds, dotted with ducks of many species, with pink and white Avocets wading about the muddy shores, and Coots and Grebes swimming among the tules that border the farther side. On the same prairies, bleak with the winter snow and cold, I remember the whirling flocks of Snow Buntings, Horned Larks, or Rosy Finches, or a single Snowy Owl, sit ting ou a rise of ground, and flying silently away at my approach. The ever changing mountains have been pictured in my memory; the wonderful little Dipper, diving 'under a waterfall and emerging to sit on a wet stone and sing the friendly Rocky Mountain Jays, who came at the noon hour to share my lunch in the pine forest; the cock Franklin Grouse, sitting in a dark green spruce top, opening and closing the red comb over his eye; the Solitaire rising in flight song above the mountain peaks, his voice ringing loudly and melodiously through the clear air; and the sweet evening chant of the White - crowned Sparrow in the willows near our camp by the lake shore. However scientifically cut and dried the text of this list may seem, back of it is a living Montana, teeming with interesting and wonderful bird life, worthy of greater attention from the future ornithologist. To those who find pleasure in the birds of Montana in the fu ture, I hope that this list will be a help, and an inspiration to publish whatever of their observations will make knowledge of our birds more perfect.

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