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Title: Birds through the year
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thomas, William Beach, Sir, 1868-1957 Collet, Anthony Keeling, 1877-
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London, Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, ltd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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REED-WARBLEK AT ITS NEST. B\ I i I. < I ILLINS. LEARNING TO FLY 201 hend us as a detached and coherent body, distinct fromthe surrounding scenery. Even then it usually displays aspectators curiosity rather than any kind of alarm. The sudden explosive calls which burst intermittently fromthe inner shades of the garden shrubberies at midsummerare not expressions of fear, but a blind demand for food—the primitive germ of all language. Young thrushes andblackbirds utter a metallic squawk ; young robins a kindredbut shriller cry. Beforethey leave the nest broodsof young starlings utter arhythmical strident choruswhich rises as they hearthe parent birds approach,and dies down again as itdeparts with its low noteof satisfied activity. Broodsof white owls under thechurch roof raise a louderand harsher tumult of thesame kind; sparrows inthe ivy cheep more shrilly ;and young martins in theeaves make a murmuringstir. Some of the noisiestof all woodland birds asthey gain their feathers are l

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