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Baby birds at home (1912)

Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 216

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ghting on a stump not far off, will openits great mouth in a way that is plainlymeant to be threatening. This bird does not make a nest, but lays itspair of greyish white eggs, marked with darkbrown and leaden grey, on the bare ground. The young ones are covered with greydown, and if disturbed are… … The Carrion Crow BOYS and girls who do not know muchabout the feathered inhabitants ofthe country frequently mix this bird upin the most hopeless manner with the rook. They call every bird that is black andlarger than a jackdaw, a crow. This isquite wrong. Rooks breed in colonies andfly about in…

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