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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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. In fact, they are ratherdelicate, and amongst the first of ourfeathered friends to creep into holes anddie during long periods of hard frost. The song of the Redwing is a very pooraffair when compared with that of thecommon thrush. It consists of two or threeoft-repeated notes, and is apt to grow weari-some when one hears nothing else in a lonelyforest. The nest is generally placed in a juniperor other low bush, and both it and the eggsresemble those of the blackbird, exceptingfor the fact that they are smaller. Baby Redwings behave just like youngsong thrushes. If a twig should shake nearthe nest, every head is thrust high in theair and each little mouth is opened wide inrequest of a tit-bit. The parent birds both protest loudly ifyou find and examine their little home.The cock will sometimes fly straight at youas if he intended to strike you in the face,but generally rises over your head, upongetting quite close, and, alighting in a birchtree, scolds loudly against your intrusion.
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The Little Owl ALTHOUGH common throughout thecentre and south of Europe, the LittleOwl was at one time only an accidental visitorto England. Since the days of the amusingold naturalist Waterton, however, manypeople have brought specimens over fromGreece, Italy, Holland, Spain and othercountries, and turned them loose, until it isnow quite a numerous species in many partsof England. The Little Owl was greatly esteemed bythe ancient Greeks, and is said to havebeen the favourite bird of the Goddess ofWisdom. You will recognise it quite easily, whetheryou see it on the wing or at rest, because itis much smaller in size than any other owlin our country, and flies about in search ofits prey just as much by day as it does bynight. The Little Owl is brown on its upper F 33 34 Baby Birds at Home parts, marked with whitish oval spots, andgreyish white underneath, streaked withbrown. The female is only some eight-and-ahalf inches in length, and her mate even some-what smaller. Mice, small birds,

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