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Placed five feet up in a many forked crotch of a black birch sprout on bushy brushland found by roadside, concealed by thin grapevines that entwined the sprouts. Large and loosely constructed, well cupped, well made of many sticks, grass and weed stems, bark and weed strips, and lined thickly with black rootlets.
Date12 Jun 1922
LocalityWest Manayunk, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.036859, -75.246034 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set4
Specimen TypeE
Incubationhalf (transcribed as “one half”)
Identificationpositive
Nest Height1.52 m (5 feet)
Nest Supportblack birch sprout
Nest Materialssticks, grass, weed stems, bark, weed strips
Nest Liningblack rootlets
Nest Settingbushy brushland found by roadside
Nest NotesPlaced in a many forked crotch, concealed by thin grapevines that entwined the sprouts. Large and loosely constructed, well cupped, well made, lined thickly.
HeaderOological Collection of Richard F. Miller, Philadelphia, Pa.
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