Camera Studies of Wild Birds in Their Homes

Two hundred photographs of living wild birds, made when bird photography was new and hard — Chester Reed in the blind, the marsh and the treetop, telling how each picture was got.

Feathered Tyrants

2 pages in this part of Camera Studies with Wild Birds.

Feathered Tyrants (Sapsucker illustrations Downy)

Sapsucker (2 illustrations) Downy Woodpecker (14 illustrations) House Wren (10 illustrations) Carolina Wren (1 illustration) Kingbird (10…

Feathered Tyrants

How well the name applies to these birds! Kings by name, kings by nature and, if we may consider the concealed orange patch on the top of…

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