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Title
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The Omaha Bird Room
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Date
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1903
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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[Page 17] knowledge. However, he never indulges in the springtime whistle which leads each March, or earlier, to the excited report from the ornithologically untrained that the "phoebe" is back. The nest from which he came was in a shrubbery on premises near by, and he is the surviving member of a family of five young, cats having gotten the rest and the parent birds as well, according to the friend who rescued him. Our "Japanese robin" is a problem. That is the bird-store name of the bird; but -or therefore -neither part of it may be correct. She may be anything but a Japanese bird, and she is surely anything but a bird which could be classified as a robin of our ken. That sentence is frightfully mixed; but so is the subject. However, she is a dainty little creature, somewhat smaller than our sparrows, with coral bill, a beautiful plumage of gray and gray-green, with touches of red and yellow on the wings. We bought the bird in a pet shop about 15 months ago. From the beauty of its plumage we considered it for months a male bird; but one day in a bird-store we saw and heard a male of the same species -a "Japanese robin," we were enlighteningly told. The bird was slightly larger than ours, and its notes definitely stronger, though the remarks were identical as were also the pattern and color of the plumage. So we were finally convinced that our bird is a female.
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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The Omaha Bird Room