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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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lews leave the seashore, andresort to the fells, moors, and uplands,where they pair for the breeding season. Itis then you hear to perfection their wild,musical notes, the commonest of whichsounds like corlieu or curlew The nest is made on the ground, andconsists of a few short bits of dead grass,or rushes placed in a slight hollow. Four eggs are nearly always laid,although on some occasions only three arefound. They are olive green, or brownishbuff, marked with blackish brown, and darkgreen spots. Baby Curlews are covered with downand leave the nest directly they are hatched,and, as they are strong and long in the leg,are well equipped for walking about in thegrass, short heather, or rushes. Curiouslyenough, when young, their bills are neitherlong nor curved, as you will see from theaccompanying illustration. If the mother bird should see anythingdangerous approaching whilst her youngones are running about with her, she soundsher alarm note and they all instantly crouchdown and hide.
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JACKDAW The Jackdaw A JACKDAW may be easily distinguishedfrom a rook, even at a distance, be-cause he is smaller and beats his wings fasteras he flies. He is very fond of telling hisname to everybody and keeps calling Jackas he flies. Close at hand the leaden greyfeathers on the back of his head and neckare very noticeable. Nearly every church tower in small townsand villages affords breeding accommodationfor the Jackdaw, and in such conditions itmay be seen any day strutting along thestreets in search of food, or diligently sur-veying rubbish heaps for any kind of ediblescraps they may yield. On the other hand large colonies may befound breeding in holes in the face of somecliff, situated at quite a considerable distancefrom the dwellings of man. It has beenwritten that Jackdaws never breed in thebranches of trees, but this is not quite K 73 74 Baby Birds at Home accurate, as they do so in a thick sprucewood in Cumberland. Holes in cliffs, oldruins, church steeples, barns and trees a

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