Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 44
he 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… … 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…
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