Word: nested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of the natives, with the U. S. holding a check on the purse strings through the Governor General. President Hoover, during his two and a half years in office, has not given the Philippines much serious thought. Last year he stirred up a hornet's nest, when, without forethought, he nominated Nicholas Roosevelt to be Vice Governor (TIME, July 28, 1930 et seq.). Mr. Roosevelt had toured the islands as a newsman, written his impressions of the people in a not too flattering book (The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem). Filipinos raised such an uproar that their...
Reason for the duck scarcity is continuing drought, which has dried up the sloughs and ponds in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, chief North American breeding-places for ducks. Several yards from a marshy place on the prairie, the mother-duck builds her nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, literary naturalist, found a Harris's sparrow nest containing several fledglings near Great Slave Lake. The find was important because it proved that the bird builds a grass nest on the ground. But what were the eggs like? The Pennsylvanians and Canadians, in friendly competition last month, were trying to find...
...mother bird had fluttered off her nest right in front of me, leaving it quickly in an effort to conceal it. But I located it almost at once, then shot her and went after the eggs. There were five of them, tiny things that never had been seen by a scientist before...
Still waiting for discovery and description are the eggs of the tule goose, a large relative of the white-fronted goose, which winters in California; eggs of the greater snow goose, which nests in northern Greenland (fledglings have been found); breeding grounds of the Ross goose (it has nested in captivity in Holland); nest & eggs of the bristle-thighed curlew which breeds somewhere in Alaska's interior...