Lewis Woodpecker as a Flycatcher
Journal
Condor
Volume
2
Issue
4 (July-August)
Year
1900
Pages
89
Section
Echoes from the Field
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Lewis’ Woodpecker as a Flycatcher.
Mr. McGregor’s notes on Melanerpes torquatus in the March CONDOR, concerning this bird’s flycatching habits brings to mind many observations of my own while at Copperopolis, and makes plain to me the cause of their peculiar and erratic flight, which often arrested my attention. Often I have watched them leave a tree and pursue their jerky, irregular flight for a distance and then return to the tree, but as the birds were too far away for me to see the insect and not knowing that they took food on the wing, their actions were attributed to some peculiar habit.
JOHN M. WELCH
Jamestown, Cal.
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