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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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t well by calling, flying overheadand generally endeavouring to lead the in-truder away from it. The nest is made of dead grass, rootletsand moss, and is neatly lined with horse-hair. From four to six eggs are laid. Theyare very similar in appearance to those ofthe Yellow Wagtail: greyish white in groundcolour, mottled with varying shades of brown. Baby Blue-headed Wagtails are fed uponsmall moths, caterpillars, water insects andflies. Both parent birds are very industriousin finding food for the chicks, and oncethey know you have found the nest, theywill alight near to you and become muchbolder. If you should sit down so close tothe nest that the old birds dare not ventureup to it to feed the chicks, they will keep oncalling to them until the youngsters will hopout and begin to run away, even before theyare able to fly. The young males in their first coat offeathers resemble the adult female in hersummer dress, except for the fact that thegrey on the head is somewhat mixed withbrown.
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The Missel Thrush IT will not be easy to confuse this bird withits better known relative, the commonsong thrush, if the following simple factsare remembered. It is nearly three incheslonger, much greyer in colour on the back,and shows a white mark on either side of itstail whilst flying. Its song is not a great vocal accomplish-ment, but has the merit of being utteredwhen the weather is so rough that it hassilenced every other musician of the grove.In fact the Storm-cock/ as the bird is fre-quently called, seems to glory in a gale.During such weather he will sit on thetopmost branch of some tall tree and pourforth his defiant notes heedless of thehowling wind and lashing rain. He commences to sing in December or January in England, and may be heard as late as the end of June in Scotland. The nest is made of slender twigs, grass29 30 Baby Birds at Home stems, moss, wool and mud, and is lined withfine dry grass. It is generally placed in thefork of a tree, or on some strong branch inorc

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