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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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ust your hand downto the bottom of her breeding hole andcapture her, Mrs. Wryneck will, upon beingwithdrawn, most likely give you a surprise.Stretching out her neck and twisting herhead over her back she will, with closedeyes and ruffled crown, pretend to bedead. As soon as you have been takenoff your guard, however, by this cleverpiece of shamming, she straightens out herwry neck and instantly flies away. This bird, like the woodpeckers, pos-sesses a very long worm-like tongue. Itis horny at the tip and supplied with asticky substance to which ants and otherinsects adhere when touched. This clevercontrivance enables the bird to capture preyquite out of sight in tunnels and galleries. A young Wryneck may frequently beseen thrusting its head out of the nestinghole and anxiously looking for its father,or mother, with more food. Upon leavingthe old home the chicks can cling to therough bark with their claws, and run withease up the trunk of the tree, inside ofwhich they have been reared.
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HERRING GULLS. The Herring Gull IF you are not very familiar with this birdyou are likely to confuse it with anotherfeathered friend from the sea—the CommonGull. Both are white and light grey in colour,but the two following points of differenceserve to distinguish the one from the other. The Herring Gull is about twenty-fourinches in length, and has flesh-coloured legsand feet, whereas its relative is only abouteighteen inches long, and has greenish yellowlegs and feet. Both may be seen togetherfollowing steamers in harbours, or picking upworms and grubs turned up by the plough,but the Common Gull rarely breeds any-where round the English coast. The Herring Gull breeds on ledges of seacliffs, on low rocky islands, and on moorlandmarshes, inland. Its nest is made of dryseaweed, sprigs of heather, or whatever elsehappens to be lying around, and is linedwith grass, which is often used quite green. *3 14 Baby Birds at Home Sometimes it is a bulky structure, and atothers a very scanty af

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