Things to Find Out
Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Bird Homes — and out of doors.
- What peculiarity of plumage development has the yellow billed cuckoo?
- How does Mr. Dugmore justify keeping birds in captivity?
- How does a bluebird eat a grasshopper?
- What extreme cleverness does the blackbird show?
- Why does the marsh wren build several nests, using but one?
- What advantage is the pointed end of eggs laid on rocks, etc.?
- What excuse is suggested for the cuckoo's parasitic egg-laying?
- What are the approximate dates when birds begin to nest near New York?
- What are the best methods in use by photographers of young birds?
- What facts should be recorded by the bird student?
- What is the author's advice on collecting birds' eggs?
- What is the most likely place for a screech owl to build its nest?
- What materials are used in the Baltimore oriole's nest?
- How are the young ones defended against smothering?
- Where and how is the nest of the oven-bird built?
- What bird builds by preference at the foot of a white oak tree?
- What birds take possession of deserted crows' nests?
- What birds nest in colonies?
- What birds dig holes in the ground and lay their eggs at the bottom?
- How old are young robins when they leave the nest?
- What bird is most destructive to chickens?
- How many broods do red-winged blackbirds rear in a season?