Identifier: babybirdsathomebb00kear (find matches)
Title: Baby birds at home
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Behavior Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ntruder away. in ii2 Baby Birds at Home The food of this species consists of worms,slugs, grubs, beetles, and all kinds of in-sects. The nest is made amongst coarse grass,fringe moss, or short heather. It is a neatcup-shaped hollow, lined with small bladesof dead grass, rushes, or slender stalks ofheather. Four pear-shaped eggs somewhat largerthan those of the lapwing are laid. Theyare yellowish stone, or cream colour, markedwith blackish brown spots. The baby birds are covered with abeautiful coat of golden-coloured down,marked with black and greyish white.They run about as soon as they are hatched,and are brooded and looked after by themale as well as the female. When the breeding season is over thebirds gather together in large flocks, andleaving the high moors, migrate to lowercountry, where they spend their time infallow fields and pastures or on mudflats bythe seashore. They frequently fly by night,and in consequence are sometimes killed bycoming in contact with telegraph wires.
Text Appearing After Image:
The Short-eared Owl THE Short-eared Owl is a very widelydistributed bird, being found all overEurope, the greater part of Asia, in northernAfrica, and throughout the whole length ofthe American continent at one season orother of the year. Although a somewhat rare breedingspecies in the British Islands, its numbersare considerably swollen in the winter bymigrants from more northern countries. Itarrives on the east coast about the same timein October as the woodcock, and whether itis from this circumstance, or the fact that itindulges in a similar twisting flight, is notquite certain, but in many parts it is knownas the Woodcock Owl. Its head is somewhat smaller and morehawk-like than that of any other member ofthe owl family inhabiting our country. Theear tufts consist of three or four featherswhich can be erected or lowered at will. p 113 ii4 Baby Birds at Home They are only about half the length of thoseof the Long-eared Owl. It feeds upon voles, mice, small birds andbeetles, for whi

Note About Images