Life histories of North American woodpeckersBent, Arthur Cleveland
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Life histories of North American woodpeckers
Bent, Arthur Cleveland
Birds -- North America; Woodpeckers -- North America
_Fall migration._--The following are late dates of departure in autumn:
British Columbia--Arrow Lakes, October 16; Kelowna, October 23; William
Head, November 23. Washington--Prescott, September 18; North Dalles,
October 10; Yakima, October 29. Montana--Columbia Falls, September 9;
Missoula, September 17; Gold Creek, September 21. Wyoming--Laramie,
September 24; Careyhurst, September 26; Wheatland, October 4.
_Casual records._--Lewis’s woodpecker has been taken on several
occasions at points east of its normal range. Among these records are
Alberta, Castor, May 7 and 9, 1924; Big Hay Lake, October 12, 1930; and
Lesser Slave Lake, May 22, 1928; Saskatchewan, one specimen at Herschel
on September 23, 1914, three in the Qu’Appelle Valley, one from near
Eastend on September 19, 1915, two in the same vicinity on September
24, 1929, and two in the summer of 1931; North Dakota, a specimen was
taken at Neche, on October 13, 1916, and one was noted at Grafton on
October 10, 1926; Nebraska, recorded at Long Pine during the winter
of 1898-99; Kansas, a specimen at Ellis on May 6, 1878, and another
near Lawrence on November 7, 1908; eastern Oklahoma, one was carefully
observed near Tulsa on December 24, 1922; Iowa, recorded at Sioux City
from November 28, 1928, to April 7, 1929; Illinois, one recorded from
Chicago on May 24, 1923, and another from Argo on May 14, 1932; and
Rhode Island, a specimen collected at Mount Pleasant, near Providence,
on November 16, 1928.
_Egg dates._--California: 19 records, April 18 to June 10; 10 records,
May 3 to 28, indicating the height of the season.
Colorado: 30 records, May 8 to August 6; 15 records, June 2 to 20.
Oregon: 18 records, May 17 to June 24; 9 records, May 30 to June 10.
British Columbia: 6 records, May 31 to June 15.
CENTURUS CAROLINUS (Linnaeus)
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
PLATES 30, 31
HABITS
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