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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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s growing on a ledge. The eggs number from four to six, and aregreyish white, thickly speckled with brownishgrey markings. Baby Wagtails, like the chicks of manyother species, learn wisdom very quickly.You may visit them in the nest every day,and up to a certain period they will eagerlylift their heads and open their mouths in re-quest of food. But one morning when you goto see them a great change has taken place intheir behaviour, for, instead of lifting theirheads, they all crouch low in the nest andkeep quite still. Ah, you say, they havegot their eyes open and can see that I am ahuman being and not a bird. No, that is not it. Young birds frequentlyappear to welcome a human visitor to thenest when their eyes are quite wide open, butthere comes a time when they suddenly realisedanger, and they entirely alter their attitudetowards you. Young Dish-Washers/ as these birdsare frequently called, may often be observedtrying to wag their wee short tails, evenbefore they have left the nest.
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The Tree Pipit UNLIKE the Meadow Pipit or Titlarkthis bird is migratory, leaving us inSeptember or October and returning againin April. It is about six inches in length,of a sandy-brown colour above streakedwith dark brown, and light buff on thebreast, which is marked with dark brownstreaks. The young naturalist is not likelyto confuse it with the skylark, because it issmaller than that bird and does not raisethe feathers on the crown of its head in theform of a crest. It is somewhat like its relatives theMeadow Pipit and the Rock Pipit in ap-pearance, but does not, as a rule, inhabitthe kind of country frequented by those twospecies. The Tree Pipits haunts are to be foundin grassy glades where trees grow in clumps,and on the edges of plantations, woods, and spinneys. It is fond of rising from the top- 109 no Baby Birds at Home most branch of some favourite tree or bushin order to utter its shrill canary-like song,the greater part of which is delivered whilstthe bird is gliding downwa

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