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Baby birds at home (1912)

Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 72

An illustration from Baby birds at home, 1912, leaf 72 — lycatchers keep their parentsbusy procuring winged insects for them, andwhen you are near one of the old birds inthe act of seizing a fly, you can actuallyhear its bill snap as it closes on the lucklesscreature. No sooner has a sufficient collec-tion of flies been made than away hies theparent bird… … The Blue-headed Wagtail THIS is a rare British bird, found breedingoccasionally in Kent and Sussex. Itis similar in size, shape and general appear-ance to our familiar friend, the Yellow Wag-tail, but there is one feature by which themales of one species can always be dis-tinguished from those of…

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