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You searched for: Contributor: Mount Desert Island Historical Society✖Place: Maine✖Subject: Nature✖Subject: Animals✖Subject: Birds✖
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Seagulls over Water Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Seagulls over Water Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 3.5 X 5 black and white photograph of about five seagulls over water, with one dipping into the ocean. All are flying and have wings extended, Mountain in background in right of picture. | |
Cormorants Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Cormorants Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 4 X 6 black and white photograph of many cormorant birds among twigs and branches. Large out of focus bird in foreground facing camera with puffed up throat. Many silhouettes of birds along horizon line and birds in air in upper left side of photo. | |
Young Cormorant Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Young Cormorant Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 5 X 5.5 black and white close up photograph of a baby cormorant. Black bird with white throat. Bird is looking up and facing the camera, beak slightly open. Surrounded by twigs and branches. Paper on back, “ Even babies too small to retreat tried to protect themselves with a horrendous bluff. Swelling up the naked orangish colored pouch beneath the chin, they clicked their bills rapidly at the intruders.” | |
Nesting Cormorants Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Nesting Cormorants Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 5 X 6 black and white photograph of a field of baby cormorant birds. Black birds dotted among nests of white twigs and grasses. Mountains of MDI in background. One bird in flight toward right hand side of mountain. Paper on back, “ the nests were so closely placed that from a distance it looked as if you couldn’t have laid a pencil between them.” | |
Gulls Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Gulls Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: 4 X 4 black and white photograph. Two Birds in nest. Young, black, without feathers and white throats. First bird is looking up and straight at camera, second bird is in profile facing to the right of photo. They are in a nest of white twigs. Writing on back, “ May 5, Gulls, deB Croff, 1, reb LaRue Spiker, Southwest Harbor.” Paper attatched to back, “ When hatched the nestlings are naked but they soon develop a coarse black down over the rough ashy-black skin.” The LaRue Spiker Collection [show more] |