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Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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old. On rare occasions a bird will fly up with a shell anddrop it on hard sand or rock until it is fractured. Crabs andother crustaceans and small fishes are eaten. The call is aclear, ringing feet^feet, and the alarm a sharply emphasised andrepeated//V,/^V,//V. Nesting birds are bold, mobbing humanbeings as well as avian visitors ; I have seen a pair drive awaya Carrion-Crow, and another pair, when guarding young, chasedthe passing Herring-Gulls until they squawked in alarm, dodgingthe fierce assailants. They even flew out over the water to moba passing steamer I The choice of the nesting site varies considerably, as doesthe quantity and quality of the nesting material. In Englandand Wales the nest is usually near the shore, but in Scotlandthe bird also nests on the banks of rivers and lochs. I havefound nests in the middle of a field, on the clifl edge, on rockyreefs and islands, on sandhills and pebble ridges. I have seenthem unlined, or with a plentiful lining and wall of bents or
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