Identifier: campscruisesofor00chap (find matches)
Title: Camps and cruises of an ornithologist, by Frank M. Chapman ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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■ In characteristic, lengthwise, Nighthawk attitude. PART II. THE BIRD-LIFE OF TWO ATLANTIC COAST ISLANDS GARDINERS ISLANDCOBBS ISLAND
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First-growth Oak Forest on Gardiners Island THE BIRD-LIFE OF TWO ATLANTIC COAST ISLANDS WITH A WORD ON ISLAND BIRD-LIFE INTRODUCTORY So far as my experience goes, all colonial, oronnd-nest-ing birds breed only on islands. Among North Americanspecies this is true of the Auks, Murres, Puffins, Guillemots,Gulls, Terns, Skimmers, Petrels, Tropic Birds, Gannets,Cormorants, Pelicans, and Flamingos. Bank Swallowsalone might be excepted. With many Loons, all Grebes, Coots, Gallinules, Cranes,Black Terns, and some Ducks, the nest is placed in the wa-ter and is an island in itself. While many of these birds are born feathered and leavethe nest shortly after hatching, they are dependent on theirparents for food until they acquire the power of flight. Butterrestrial nesting habits and a period of helplessness onthe ground, whether in or out of the nest, do not in them-selves require the protection of insular life. Ducks, Snipes,Plovers, Rails, all gallinaceous birds. Goatsuckers, Larks,Pipits, ma

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