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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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ey do so in a thick sprucewood in Cumberland. Holes in cliffs, oldruins, church steeples, barns and trees arefavourite nesting situations. Sometimes achimney is selected. The nest is made of sticks, twigs, moss,wool, feathers, or whatever else happens tocome to hand. Sometimes it is a hugestructure, and at others quite a slight affair.The writer has known a pair of Jackdawsbuild a tower of sticks three feet high on theloft of a barn, so as to have the top near theirentrance hole through the wall. Anotherpair had taken possession of a crude nest,made for them by a small boy, of twigs andwool in a hole in one of the walls of thesame building. Three to six eggs are laid of a palegreenish blue, spotted and speckled withdark brown and grey. Young Jackdaws are noisy birds, andgenerally betray their presence by constantlyasking for food, and positively clamouringwhen one or other of their parents returnshome. When the fledglings lea,ve the nestthey generally sit about in trees for afew days.
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GREY LAG GEESE. The Grey Lag Goose THIS is the only member of the Goosefamily that breeds in the BritishIslands. In olden times it used to live allthe year round in the Fen districts of Lin-colnshire, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, andis supposed to have derived its common namefrom the facts that it is grey in colour andlagged behind other species of wild geeseto breed. Drainage of its old strongholds,and a greatly increased human population,have long since banished it as a breedingbird, and it is now only found nesting spar-ingly in the North-west Highlands, and morenumerously in the Outer Hebrides. In thelatter part of the country the writer hasfound in one day as many as half a dozennests containing eggs. When they becometoo numerous the Crofters, or small farmers,complain of the damage done by the geesetreading down their uncut corn. The Grey Lag Goose feeds upon grain, 75 76 Baby Birds at Home picked up in stubble fields, grass, and differentkinds of water plants. When flying in a f

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