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Bird Neighbors

by: Neltje Blanchan

Year Published: 1897
Table of Contents
Title Page
Introduction
Preface
Bird Families
Habitats of Birds
Seasons of Birds
Birds Grouped According to Size
Birds Grouped According to Color
Direct links to Bird Descriptions
CUCKOOS  
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
KINGFISHERS
Belted Kingfisher
WOOPECKERS
Red-headed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Flicker
GOATSUCKERS
Nighthawk
Whippoorwill
SWIFTS
Chimney Swift
HUMMINGBIRDS
Ruby-throated Humming-bird
FLYCATCHERS
Kingbird
Phoebe
Wood Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
LARKS
Horned Lark
Prairie Horned Lark
CROWS & JAYS
Common Crow
Fish Crow
Northen Raven
Blue Jay
Canada Jay
BLACKBIRDS / ORIOLES
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Purple Grackle
Bronzed Grackle
Cowbird
Meadow Lark
Western Meadow Lark
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
FINCHES & SPARROWS
Chipping Sparrow
English Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Savanna Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Song Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Smith's Painted Longspur
Pine Siskin
Purple Finch
Goldfinch
Redpoll
Greater Redpoll
Red Crossbill
White-winged Red Crossbill
Cardinal Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pine Grosbeak
Evening Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Junco
Snowflake
Chewink
TANAGERS
Scarlet Tanager
Summer Tanager
SWALLOWS
Barn Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff (or Eaves) Swallow
Tree Swallow
WAXWINGS
Cedar Bird
Bohemian Waxwing
SHRIKES
Northern Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
VIREOS
Red-eyed Vireo
Solitary Vireo
Warbling Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
WOOD WARBLERS
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Creeping Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Canadian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Palm Warbler
Parula Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Redstart
Wilson's Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow Palm Warbler
Northern Water Thrush
Louisiana Water Thrush
Maryland Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
PIPITS
American Pipit
THRASHERS, MOCKING-BIRDS, AND CATBIRDS  
Brown Thrasher
Catbird
Mocking-bird
WRENS
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter-Wren
Long-billed Marsh Wren
Short-billed Marsh Wren
CREEPERS
Brown Creeper
NUTHATCHES AND TITMICE
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Tufted Titmouse
Chickadee
KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS
Bluebird
Robin
Alice's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Olive-backed Thrush

Wilson's Thrush (Veery) 

Wood Thrush
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Mourning or Carolina Dove
Chapter Two: HABITATS OF BIRDS
BIRDS OF THE AIR CATCHING THEIR FOOD AS THEY FLY
BIRDS MOST FREQUENTLY SEEN IN THE UPPER HALF OF TREES
BIRDS OF LOW TREES OR LOWER PARTS OF TREES
BIRDS OF TREE-TRUNKS AND LARGE LIMBS
BIRDS THAT SHOW A PREFERENCE FOR PINES AND OTHER EVERGREENS
BIRDS SEEN FEEDING AMONG THE FOLIAGE AND TERMINAL TWIGS OF TREES
BIRDS THAT CHOOSE CONSPICUOUS PERCHES
BIRDS OF THE GARDENS AND ORCHARDS.
BIRDS OF THE WOODS
BIRDS SEEN NEAR THE EDGES OF WOODS
BIRDS OF SHRUBBERY, BUSHES, AND THICKETS
BIRDS SEEN FEEDING ON THE GROUND
BIRDS OF MEADOW, FIELD, AND UPLAND
BIRDS OF ROADSIDE AND FENCES
BIRDS OF MARSHES AND BOGGY MEADOWS
BIRDS OF WET WOODLANDS AND MARSHY THICKETS
BIRDS FOUND NEAR SALT WATER
BIRDS FOUND NEAR STREAMS AND PONDS
BIRDS THAT SING ON THE WING


 
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 Kinglets, the Water Thrushes, the Vireos, Whippoorwill, Nighthawk, Kingfisher, Cardinal, Ovenbird, Brown Creeper, Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Junco.
 
BIRDS SEEN NEAR THE
EDGES OF WOODS
The Wrens, the Woodpeckers, the Flycatchers, the Warblers, Purple Finch, the Cuckoos, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush, Cowbird, Brown Creepers, the Nuthatches and Titmice, the Kinglets, Chewink; the White-crowned, White-throated, Tree, Fox, and Song Sparrows; Humming-bird, Bluebird, Junco, the Crossbills, the Grosbeaks, Nighthawk, Whippoorwill, Mourning Dove, Indigo Bird, Brown Thrasher.

BIRDS OF SHRUBBERY,
BUSHES, AND THICKETS
Maryland Yellowthroat, Ovenbird (in woods); Myrtle Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, and other Warblers during the migrations; the Shrikes; the White-throated, the Fox, the Song, and other Sparrows; Chickadee, Junco, Chewink, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Catbird, Mocking-bird, Wilson's Thrush, Goldfinch, Redpolls, Maryland Yellowthroat, White-eyed Vireo, Hooded Warbler.

BIRDS SEEN FEEDING
ON THE GROUND
The Sparrows, Junco, Meadowlark, Horned Lark, Chewink, Robin, Ovenbird, Pipit or Titlark, Redpoll, Greater Redpoll, Snowflake, Lapland Longspur, Smith's Painted Longspur, Rusty Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird, the Crows, Cowbird, the Water Thrushes, Bobolink, Canada Jay, the Grackles, Mourning Dove; the Worm-eating, the Prairie, the Kentucky, and the Mourning Ground Warblers; Flicker.

BIRDS OF MEADOW,
FIELD, AND UPLAND
The Field and Vesper Sparrows, Bobolink, Meadowlark, Horned Lark, Goldfinch, the Swallows, Pipit or Titlark, Cowbird, Redpoll, Greater Redpoll, Snowflake, Junco, Lapland Longspur, Smith's Painted Longspur, Rusty Blackbird, Crow, Fish Crow, Nighthawk, Whippoorwill; the Yellow, the Palm, and the Prairie Warblers; the Grackles, Flicker, Bluebird, Indigo Bird.

BIRDS OF ROADSIDE
AND FENCES
The Sparrows, Kingbird, Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-breasted Chat, Indigo Bird, Bluebird, Flicker, Goldfinch, Brown Thrasher, Catbird, Robin, the Woodpeckers, Yellow Palm Warbler, the Vireos.

BIRDS OF MARSHES
AND BOGGY MEADOWS
Long-billed Marsh Wren, Short-billed Marsh Wren; the Swamp, the Savanna, the Sharp-tailed, and the Seaside Sparrows; Red-winged Blackbird.

BIRDS OF WET WOODLANDS
AND MARSHY THICKETS
Northern Water Thrush, Louisiana Water Thrush, Ovenbird, Winter Wren, Carolina Wren, Phoebe; Wood Pewee and the other Flycatchers; Wilson's Thrush or Veery, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Yellow-breasted Chat; the Canadian, Wilson's, Black-capped, the Maryland Yellowthroat, the Hooded, and the Yellow-throated Warblers.

BIRDS FOUND NEAR
SALT WATER
Fish Crow, Common Crow, Bank Swallow, Tree Swallow, Savanna Sparrow, Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Seaside Sparrow, Horned Lark, Pipit or Titlark.

BIRDS FOUND NEAR
STREAMS AND PONDS
Kingfisher, the Swallows, Northern Water Thrush, Louisiana Water Thrush, Phoebe, Wood Pewee, the Flycatchers, Winter Wren, Wilson's Black-capped Warbler, the Canadian and the Yellow Warblers.

BIRDS THAT SING
ON THE WING
Bobolink, Meadowlark, Indigo Bird, Purple Finch, Goldfinch, Ovenbird, Kingbird, Vesper Sparrow (rarely), Maryland Yellowthroat, Horned Lark, Kingfisher, the Swallows, Chimney Swift, Nighthawk, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Pipit or Titlark, Mocking-bird.