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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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ter V with the sharp base point of theletter going first >. A curious feature in the life of this birdis, that it moults so rapidly, that for a timeit has not sufficient feathers in its wingsto lift its heavy body from the ground. Atthis season it either goes into hiding, ortakes to large sheets of open water for safety. The nest is made in deep heather, tallrough grass, rushes or osiers. It is formedof dead flags, heather or rushes, and is linedwith plentiful supplies of down and feathersplucked from the birds own body. Uponleaving the nest of her own accord, the oldfemale covers her eggs carefully with down ;this keeps them warm whilst she is away. The eggs number from five to nine, andare of a yellowish or creamy white colour. Young Grey Lag Geese are covered withdown, and leave the nest almost directly afterthey are hatched. It is a very pretty sightto watch an old bird of this species proudlyswimming in a Highland loch, with her familyfollowing in single file close behind her.
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BROWN OWL. The Brown or Tawny Owl THIS is the bird we hear during winternights calling in woods like someonelost. Its loud eerie notes tu-whit tu-whoo may be heard in different parts of England,Wales, and Scotland, but not in Ireland.Occasionally it hoots during broad light ofday. The bird has yet another name, WoodOwl, which is also a very suitable onebecause it is a lover of woods, forests, andparks where hollow old trees abound. The Brown Owl feeds upon rats, voles,mice, moles, and young rabbits, which itseizes in its strong, sharp claws whilst theyare abroad feeding or playing in the twilight. Some people think that owls can findtheir prey when it is pitch dark, and thatthey cannot see at all in broad daylight.They are wrong in both cases. Owls cannotsee in absolute darkness any more than boysand girls can, but they are able to do so indaylight, although they prefer to sit and 77 78 Baby Birds at Home slumber with closed eyes in some shadyplace until dusk. Their sight is specially

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