. The bird, its form and function . ?5 156 The Bird Herons are the still-fishers of the bird world, and standin the shallows, silent and motionless as the reeds aroundthem, with their lance-like beaks in rest and their necks. Fig 120 —Great Blue Heron, a still hunter. (Sanborn, photographer. CourtesyN. Y. Zoological Society.) at a hair-trigger poise. So w^e see that few kinds of fish,from the lowly lamprey to the jewelled brook trout,escape the sharp eyes of birds, and even when decayed The Food of Birds ^57 masses of fish are thrown ashore, feathered scavengersare always alert. Frogs always s
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. The bird, its form and function . ?5 156 The Bird Herons are the still-fishers of the bird world, and standin the shallows, silent and motionless as the reeds aroundthem, with their lance-like beaks in rest and their necks. Fig 120 —Great Blue Heron, a still hunter. (Sanborn, photographer. CourtesyN. Y. Zoological Society.) at a hair-trigger poise. So w^e see that few kinds of fish,from the lowly lamprey to the jewelled brook trout,escape the sharp eyes of birds, and even when decayed The Food of Birds ^57 masses of fish are thrown ashore, feathered scavengersare always alert. Frogs always s