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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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r ten 5 6 Baby Birds at Home feet above the ground, and at others rightdown upon it. The one shown in ourillustration was made in the shelter of atuft of grass. It is constructed of drygrass and roots, with an inner lining offine grass and horsehair. The eggs generally number four or five,although sometimes there are only three ina clutch, and at others as many as six.They are of a dingy white colour tingedwith purple and spotted and scrawled withdark purplish brown. The Yellow Hammer commences to breedin April and goes on until very late in thesummer. You may sometimes find its nestcontaining eggs, or young, even in the monthof August. The chicks are fed by both parent birds,but the male is much shyer than the femaleas a rule. Nestling Yellow Hammers make a veryunruly family. Long before they are readyto fledge, they become so boisterous thatbefore their mother has time to reach themwith a collection of insects, they crowd andpush and all but walk out of their littlehome to meet her.
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WILLOW WRENS. The Willow Wren SOME difficulty will no doubt be exper-ienced by young nature-students indistinguishing this little warbler from itsrelatives the chiffchaff and the wood wren,as it is somewhat similar in size, appearance,and habits to both these birds. It is largerthan the chiffchaff, however, and is not sogreen on its upper parts or light-colouredunderneath its body as the wood wren. The song of the Willow Wren differswidely from that of its relatives, and if youare gifted with a good ear for music, thisfact will help you. Its notes mount upround and full, and then run down the scaleand expire, whereas those of the wood wrenconsist of sounds something like sit-sit-sit-sitsee-eeeeeze each note rising in pitch andfinally ending in a long thin one. The chiff-chaffs song cannot be confused with that ofany other bird, because it consists of two oft-repeated notes that sound like chiff-chaff. 7 8 Baby Birds at Home The Willow Wren, or Willow Warbler,as it is frequently called

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