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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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e a barn-door fowlbrooding a large family of chicks. If she isnot doing this you may rely upon it that sheis sitting in a tree not far off, intently watch-ing the place where her young ones abide.Should you ,be lucky enough to find herfamily, she will most likely surprise you bysuddenly emerging from her place of hidingand flying close over your head. Sometimes in her anger and alarm shewill smack her wings together over her backand beneath her body, and if this does notsucceed in driving you away she will resortto a very cunning trick. Disappearing fromview, she will startle you by screaming outlike a rabbit in pain, and upon going in thedirection of the distressing sounds, you willin all probability find her lying on the groundwith both wings stretched out. This cleverruse has been put into practice in order todraw you away from her young ones. Long-eared Owls feed their chicks uponvoles, rats, mice, and small birds, for whichthey may frequently be seen hunting duringbroad daylight.
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HERON. The Common Heron THIS is a very easy feathered friend torecognise. It is large in size, andbeats its wings at a slower rate than anyother British bird. Whilst in the air it is obliged to stretchits long legs out behind and curve its giraffe-like neck in order to balance itself. During the breeding season Herons con-gregate in some wood or plantation, andbuild their large nests of sticks, twigs, rootletsand grass near the tops of the trees. They do not always breed in colonies,for occasionally a solitary pair of birds maybe found nesting on a ledge in the face ofa sea cliff, or even upon the ground. Theireggs number from three to five and are of apale greenish-blue colour. Baby Herons are covered with down.That growing upon their heads is long andshaggy, and makes them look like wee Skyeterriers. In cool weather they huddle to- H 49 50 Baby Birds at Home gether in the nest for warmth, until, at a littledistance, they look just like one bundle offluffy down. They are fed upon eel

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