Varied Thrush Trapped by Acorn
Journal
Condor
Volume
42
Issue
3 (May-June)
Year
1940
Pages
164
Section
From Field and Study
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Varied Thrush Trapped by Acorn
On the day after last Thanksgiving (November 24, 1939) my wife and I were driving through thickly wooded hills on a road running between Ukiah and Mendocino, Mendocino County, California. There were numerous Varied Thrushes (Ixoreus naevius) flying away from the dirt road as we drove along. Stopping to investigate one which did not fly, we found it to be embarrassed by a large acorn .which had become fastened on the bill with a sharp corner forced into one nostril. The bird was very weak, and, although it must have gone without food for some time, it managed to fly feebly off when we had cut the acorn free with a pair of scissors.
David Gelston Nichols
Berkeley, Californiu, January 23, 1940
