Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, the male is in Denver, trying desperately to acquire a nest for his family (all except the double-breasted dow ager). For six months he has tried to find an abandoned nest of some other bird, while his female has stayed a thousand miles behind in the old nest...
Ever since, ornithologists have wondered where the bristle-thighed curlew really lives and does its reproducing. It winters in the South Seas, as many New Yorkers winter in Florida, but it does not make its nest there. In 1869, a bristle-thighed curlew was spotted on the Alaska coast. But no nest was found. Apparently the curlews, having flown over 5,000 miles from Tahiti, penetrated still farther into Alaska to raise their families...
...other up-to-date gadgets, made a serious attack on the curlew's domestic privacy. Last week the exciting news was flashed to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon, 160 miles south of Nome. Dr. Allen promised to bring back intimate motion picture studies of the bristle-thighed curlew at home...
...April 1943, he was killed storming a German machine-gun nest with a detachment of French Goums in Tunisia's Sedjenane Valley. The Silver Star was awarded to him posthumously. He had also been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross but that was denied. At the time of his death he was awaiting court-martial for insubordination. They buried him near the spot where he fell...
...females, too, were susceptible. They followed a red dummy as if it were a male. When a female was in the nest, Professor Tinbergen gently poked her abdomen with the tip of a glass rod. She laid her eggs willingly...