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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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t Home The Willow Grouse is found where birchand willow trees grow amongst heather andjuniper. In Norway it inhabits the moun-tain sides above where the fir trees grow andthe capercaillie and black grouse live, andbelow the bare ridges where the ptarmiganis found. Unlike the red grouse, this speciesgenerally roosts in trees. The nest of the Willow Grouse is madeon the ground amongst heather and juniperbushes. It consists of a slight hollow veryscantily lined with small pieces of dead, dryvegetation. The eggs are very similar in all respectsto those of the red grouse, and the chicks donot differ in appearance. If you suddenly come upon a motherWillow Grouse brooding her chicks she com-mences to run round and round you, flappingher wings as if injured and unable to fly.This clever ruse is practised in order toattract your attention and give her youngones an opportunity of scattering and hidingin the undergrowth. No sooner have theydone this than their mother mounts the airand flies off.
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WHEATEARS. The Wheatear THE Wheatear is a stout little bird aboutsix inches in length. The top of itshead, nape, and back are of a bluish greycolour tinged with light brown. The end ofits body and upper part of the tail are purewhite. That is why the bird looks like alarge snowflake when flying away from youin a dull light. A streak over the eye, itswings, and the tip of its tail are nearly black.Chin and throat are dull white, and the under-pays creamy white. The female is brownerand duller in colour generally. This bird loves wild moorland countrywhere rocks and solitude are to be found ; itis frequently, however, met with inhabitingpastures and arable land in the North. Ithas a habit of perching on stone walls androcks and waiting until you walk quite closeto it, then flying on in front of you andalighting on some large stone or knoll nearwhich you are almost sure to pass. Whilst I 57 58 Baby Birds at Home it is waiting for you it will often behave ina manner suggestive of anger. D

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