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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a rest in the sunshine. Tall tree tops, ledges on cliffs, or low rockyislands, will suit the Cormorant equally wellfor breeding purposes. The nest is a bulky structure, made ofsticks and seaweed, and lined with coarsegrass. It does not matter much, however,whether it is a childs whip, or the skeletonof a seagull, this bird will utilise it asbuilding material. Three eggs are generally laid, but asmany as five or six may be found in a clutch.They are small for the size of the bird, andpale blue in colour. The real shell is usuallyhidden by a thick coating of chalk, which canbe scraped off quite easily with a pocket-knife. Young Cormorants are hatched absolutelynaked, and as their shiny skins are bluish-black, they look rather ugly. In a few days,however, they grow a coat of dusky blackdown, and when old enough to swim anddive are said to be carried on the backs oftheir parents down to the sea. They areexceedingly nervous, and appear to be panic-stricken, if you handle them in the nest.
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The Garden Warbler THE Garden Warbler is a little brownbird of retiring habits. It is about sixinches in length, but cannot very well bemistaken for a female blackcap if the fact isremembered that it has no rusty brown onthe top of its head; or for the whitethroat,because the colour under its bill and onits breast is a dull lightish brown. It is a migratory bird arriving from theSouth towards the end of April or beginningof May, and returning again to its winterquarters in September and October. The song of the male is considered bymany nature-lovers to be almost as good asthat of the blackcap, and several of its notesmay easily be mistaken for those of thatfavourite Warbler. They are of the samebright, pure, musical quality, but not quiteso powerful, and are delivered in a rathermore hurried manner. Concealed in some thick bush the Garden 37 38 Baby Birds at Home Warbler will, if undisturbed, pour forth itssweet music by the hour together. It is fond of quiet gardens and secludedwood

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