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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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entire 91 92 Baby Birds at Home bill coloured pinky red, whereas that of theCommon Tern is pinky red tipped withblack. The Arctic Tern arrives during April orMay, and soon resorts to its favourite haunton some low island, or unfrequented part ofthe coast to breed. As a rule, it does notmake a nest of any kind, simply scratchinga slight hollow in the sand or shingle, orselecting some little declivity on a bare pieceof rock. The eggs number two or three and varyin colour from bluish green to brownish buff,spotted and blotched with different shadesof brown, and grey. The chicks are covered with buffish browncoloured down of variable tints, marked withblack. They run about soon after they arehatched, and when alarmed squat amongstthe stones and shingle and hide, as shown inour illustration. Where great numbers of Arctic Ternsbreed together, the chicks mingle in suchcrowds that it is difficult to understandhow the parent birds recognise their ownyoung ones, when they return home withfood.
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The Golden Eagle IN olden times the Golden Eagle bred as farsouth as Derbyshire, but the shepherdand the gamekeeper have long since banishedit from its haunts in England and Wales, andit is now only found nesting in the wildestand most solitary parts of the Highlandsof Scotland, the Hebrides and the west ofIreland, where it is, however, approachingextinction. It is a grand sight to watch this greatbird soaring upon outstretched wings far upin the blue sky. The tips of its flight feathersare bent upwards owing to the heavy weightthey have to sustain, and the light canplainly be seen between them, just as oldJapanese artists have shown us in theirpictures. The Golden Eagle, although called theking of birds/ is not gifted with the death-dealing fierceness of the peregrine falcon, orthe dashing courage of the merlin. It feeds 93 94 Baby Birds at Home upon hares, rabbits, grouse, ptarmigan, occa-sionally lambs, and frequently carrion. In some Scottish deer forests it is nowpreserved and en

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