Birds Every Child Should Know

Indigo Bunting Bird (Indigo-bird) – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

Every child knows the bluebird, possibly the kingfisher and the blue jay, too, but there is only one other bird with blue feathers,

CRESTED FLYCATCHER – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

CRESTED FLYCATCHER. Far more tyrannical than the kingbird is this “wild Irishman,” as John Burroughs calls the large flycatcher with the tousled head and harsh,

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Hen Hawk, Chicken Hawk, Winter Hawk – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Hen Hawk, Chicken Hawk, Winter Hawk – Let any one say “Hawk” to the average farmer and he looks for his gun.

Birds for Kids – SPOTTED SANDPIPER

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

Birds for Kids – SPOTTED SANDPIPER – excerpt from the book “Birds Every Child Should Know” by Neltje Blanchan

Brown Thrasher Bird – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

People who are not very well acquainted with the birds about them usually mistake the long-tailed brown thrasher for a thrush because he has a rusty back and a speckled white breast, which they seem to think is an exclusive thrush characteristic, which it certainly is not.

CLIFF SWALLOW – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

More than any other bird family, the swallows are becoming increasingly dependent for shelter upon man, at least when they are nesting;

TOWHEE BIRD – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

From their hunting-ground in the blackberry tangle and bushes that border a neighbouring wood, a family of chewinks sally forth boldly to my piazza floor to pick up seed from the canary’s cage,

PHOEBE BIRD (Dusky Flycatcher) – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

PHOEBE BIRD (Dusky Flycatcher). The first of its family to come North, as well as the last to leave us for the winter, the phoebe appears toward the end of March to snap up the first insects warmed into life by the spring sunshine.

RED-TAILED HAWK, Chicken Hawk, Red Hawk – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

RED-TAILED HAWK, Chicken Hawk, Red Hawk – This larger relative of the red-shouldered hawk (the female red-tail measures nearly two feet in length) shares with it the hatred of all but the most enlightened farmers.

WOODCOCK Bird – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

WOODCOCK Bird – Birds for Kids – excerpt from the book “Birds Every Child Should Know” by Neltje Blanchan

CATBIRD – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

Slim, lithe, elegant, dainty, the catbird, as he runs lightly over the lawn or hunts among the shrubbery, appears to be a fine gentleman among his kind—a sort of Beau Brummel in smooth, gray feathers who has preened and prinked until his toilet is quite faultless.

BANK SWALLOW (Sand Martin; Sand Swallow) – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

Perhaps you have seen a sand bank somewhere, probably near a river or pond, where the side of the bank was filled with holes as if a small cannon had been trained against it as a target.

RED-BREASTED GROSBEAK – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

Among birds, as among humans, it is the father who lends his name to the family, however difficult it may be to know the mother and children by it.

WOOD PEWEE BIRD – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

When you have been wandering through the summer woods did you ever, like Trowbridge, sit down

COOPER’S HAWK, Chicken Hawk – Birds for Kids

February 9, 2015 Smart Kids 123 Birds Every Child Should Know

COOPER’S HAWK, Chicken Hawk – Here is no ally of the farmer, but his foe, the most bold of all his robbers, a blood-thirsty villain that lives by plundering poultry yards, and tearing the warm flesh from the breasts of game and song birds, one of the few members of his generally useful tribe that deserves the punishment ignorantly meted out to his innocent relatives.

Category: Birds Every Child Should Know

Indigo Bunting Bird (Indigo-bird) – Birds for Kids

CRESTED FLYCATCHER – Birds for Kids

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Hen Hawk, Chicken Hawk, Winter Hawk – Birds for Kids

Birds for Kids – SPOTTED SANDPIPER

Brown Thrasher Bird – Birds for Kids

CLIFF SWALLOW – Birds for Kids

TOWHEE BIRD – Birds for Kids

PHOEBE BIRD (Dusky Flycatcher) – Birds for Kids

RED-TAILED HAWK, Chicken Hawk, Red Hawk – Birds for Kids

WOODCOCK Bird – Birds for Kids

CATBIRD – Birds for Kids

BANK SWALLOW (Sand Martin; Sand Swallow) – Birds for Kids

RED-BREASTED GROSBEAK – Birds for Kids

WOOD PEWEE BIRD – Birds for Kids

COOPER’S HAWK, Chicken Hawk – Birds for Kids

GREAT BLUE HERON – Birds for Kids

Northern Mockingbird – Birds for Kids

TREE SWALLOW (White-breasted Swallow) – Birds for Kids

CARDINAL GROSBEAK (Virginia Nightingale) – Birds for Kids

LEAST FLYCATCHER (Chebec) – Birds for Kids

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