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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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irds at Home species called by farmers in the north ofEngland. As a singer the Starling does not rankvery high. It will stand on a chimney-potor tree-top excitedly shuffling its wings andwith puffed-out throat feathers imitate otherbirds notes, but has very few of its own. The nest is made of straw, hay, rootlets,feathers, wool, pieces of string, or whateverelse may come in handy, and is placed inholes in trees, roofs of houses, crevices ofrock, and amongst loose stones lying on steephillsides. The eggs are pale blue in colour andnumber four, five, or six in a clutch. Young Starlings do not resemble theirparents in appearance. Instead of beingblack, with green, purple, and bronzy sheenreflections, they are of a uniform dullgreyish brown above and brownish whiteunderneath. Nestling Starlings are always very hungryand very noisy, and when they fledge onefamily joins another, until by the height ofsummer we see great flocks going to roostevery evening, in some favourite wood orshrubbery.
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GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. The Great Black-backedGull THERE are two Black-backed Gulls foundbreeding in the British Islands—theLesser and the Great. They are very similarin appearance, but the bird under notice maybe readily distinguished by its greater sizeand the fact that its legs and feet are flesh-coloured, whereas those of the Lesser Blackare yellow. The Great Black Back is our largest sea-gull. It measures nearly thirty inches inlength and has a wing expanse of closeupon six feet, but is far less numerous thanits smaller relative. It is a terrible robber,and will feed upon fish, the eggs and youngof other birds, and almost any kind of carrion.Its strength is so great that it has beenknown to fly off with a dead lamb. Ledges of sea cliffs, the tops of ocean rockstacks, the highest points of small islands M 89 go Baby Birds at Home in the sea, and large fresh-water lochs, andmarshes on moors are chosen by this speciesfor breeding places. The nest is made of seaweed, heather,wool,

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