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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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ees, it bred inthem, but when the forests disappeared, itadapted itself to conditions as it found them. The nest is made of sticks, twigs, dry sea-weed and heather, with an inner lining ofmoss, wool, and hair. The eggs number from three to six, andare greyish green in colour, spotted withdifferent shades of greenish brown. Baby Grey Crows are very ugly littlecreatures when they are hatched, but incourse of time grow quite handsome. When they have left the nest, and beforethey can fly far, they sit about on rocks, andif they should happen to catch sight of oneof their parents, ever so far off, up go theirheads, and with widely opened mouths theybegin to call Yah! Yah! Yah! In Norwaythey do this whilst sitting about on thebranches of trees, and thus frequently betraytheir presence. During hard weather in the winter HoodyCrows may often be seen walking along theseashore looking for food, and it does notmatter whether they come upon a dead fishor a tired bird they will make a meal off it.
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CHAFFINCHES. The Chaffinch THE Chaffinch is almost as well knownas the house sparrow. The bluishash colour of the males head and his reddishbrown breast, render him almost as strikingin appearance as the bullfinch. In the autumn the males and females ofthis species separate, and many members ofboth sexes leave the country altogether andgo south in search of a more genial climate.Those that remain with us, however, alwaysseem to be very cheerful whilst they arehopping about in farmyards and gardens insearch of seeds. The male Chaffinch is a great singer, andif the weather be mild and open he beginsto try over his ringing little ditty quiteearly in the spring. His song has beenlikened to the words, Will you, will youkiss me, dear ? and at the height of theseason is practised over thousands of timesevery day. G 41 42 Baby Birds at Home The nest is built in the fork of a smalltree, in orchards, woods, rough old hedge-rows, on commons, and by streams. It is abeautifully neat and compact li

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