Filming the deer and fawn scenes in the hit movie ‘The Yearling’ presented the biggest challenge to the animal trainer known as Morgan. To furnish the required supply of actors for these scenes alone, Morgan kept on hand a herd of twenty deer.
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Animal trainer Morgan’s greatest pride and joy among his four-legged actors was the fawn Bambi. Referred to by Clarence Brown as the “Million-Dollar-Baby”, Bambi is the star of the hit movie The Yearling. All other deer and fawns appearing in the movie were raised in zoos.
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Men whose names are now part of the bird list went along as naturalists, and avidly explored a land where Indian attacks still were not only possible but also imminently probable. A number of army officers, located on isolated posts, turned birders.
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Out of a jungle of rain-washed pines and junipers spearing the hot blueness of the Florida sky, ran a small, tawny-haired boy. His bare feet, extending from his overalled legs, crackled against the fallen palmettos. He leaped into the air, flinging his arms toward a flock of white doves circling above him.
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It is no more than proper that a warbler, a thrush, a plover, a phalarope, a snipe, a tern, and a petrel all should bear the name of Swedish ornithologist Linnaeus. Still others are named for his contemporaries-for Audubon, who brought many other birds to light; for William Swainson, and for Dr. Bachman of Charleston; for the brother of Napoleon, birdman Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, for whom the Bonaparte’s gull is named.
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Birding in the wild lands of America was combined with the acute danger of hostile Indians and with the menace of the unknown. It is somehow amazing to picture these men on the government expeditions-Sir John Richardson with the Hudson’s Bay Company in the fur countries of northern Canada; Lewis and Clark in the Oregon Country; John K. Townsend and Thomas Nuttall naming birds from Massachusetts to San Diego; John James Audubon traveling, ever bird-hungry, along the Wabash and the Ohio and down to New Orleans and Florida, into the far West, and up into Labrador.
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In his Systema Naturae, Linnaeus named the then known American birds, and created a standard by which later ornithologists could agree or disagree. They have been doing so ever since. Linnaeus gave one Latin name for the genus and one for the species, and, when necessary, a third to designate a subspecies.
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Since the days when the people of Raleigh’s colony settled on the sandy shores of Roanoke-since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth, and Duxbury, and Provincetown-men, with unending enjoyment, have been discovering and naming the American birds. At first, perhaps, it was only a casual looking at them. The settlers were homesick for England, and in certain American birds they saw a resemblance to those they never expected to see again.
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Whatever your method at imitating the call of the wild, your degree of success will be increased if you wear neutral colors that blend easily with your surroundings. Perhaps the most important factor is your ability to avoid any sudden movement. For this reason one will do his best when alone.
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Whatever your method at imitating the call of the wild, your degree of success will be increased if you wear neutral colors that blend easily with your surroundings. Perhaps the most important factor is your ability to avoid any sudden movement. For this reason one will do his best when alone.
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