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

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often behave ina manner suggestive of anger. Ducking itsbody, drooping its wings, and spreading outits tail for an instant, it utters a note sound-ing like chick, chack. The Wheatear is not a very accomplishedvocalist, but his song is pretty and generallydelivered on the wing. A hole amongst rocks, in a stone wall,bank, or old peat stack is used as a nestingplace. The structure is formed of rootlets,dry grass, and moss, with an inner lining ofwool, hair, feathers, or rabbits down. The eggs number five or six, and are palegreenish blue in colour. Young Wheatears are fed by both parentbirds upon caterpillars, moths, beetles, andall kinds of insects. They do not leave thenest until they can fly quite strongly, butvery soon learn to find their own food andtake care of themselves. During July Wheatears gradually worktheir way south, and leave us for theirwinter quarters in Africa and other warmcountries, to appear again, if the weathershould be mild and open, as early as Februaryor March.
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The Ring Ouzel THE Ring Ouzel is a bird of lonely crag-strewn glens and solitary mountain-sides. In size and shape it is very muchlike the common blackbird. Its plumage isdull black, the intensity of which is modifiedby many of the feathers being edged withdark grey. Across the breast is a broadcrescent of pure white, hence its commonname of Ring Ouzel. The female is similarin appearance to the male, except for the factsthat she is somewhat lighter coloured, andthe crescent on her chest is narrower and ofa dirty white. The Rock Thrush, as it is sometimes called,arrives in England in April. It is occasionallyseen close to London during its spring migra-tion, and in the neighbourhood of Brightonand other towns on the South Coast inSeptember and October, during its autumnjourney to southern Europe, where it spendsthe winter. It breeds in nearly all districts 59 60 Baby Birds at Home suiting its habits, in the west and northof England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. During the spring and s

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