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slim and worn volume in a used book store. The title included “...adjacent parts of Maryland and Vicinity.” The book was published in 1898 and it was a revelation for I am interested in the history of ornithology. The cowbird, Molothrus ater, is listed as “...a rare permanent resident.”
In one hundred years the cowbird has gone from ‘rare’ to abundant. A troublesome fact when one considers that many species that migrate to the tropics and return to North America to nest are declining at an alarming rate; they are raising only cowbirds during their brief stay in our fields, hedgerow and forests.
Back to the book on Washington (and Virginia) birds and a quote from the introduction by Frank M. Chapman, possibly America’s greatest ornithologist, prolific writer on birds, and founder of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. On the title page, he is quoted: “So I say
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