SHORT-EARED OWL, Marsh Owl – Owls for Kids
SHORT-EARED OWL, Marsh Owl - This owl, and its long-eared cousin, wear the tufts of feathers in their ears that resemble harmless horns.
Category Birds Every Child Should Know
Barn Owl for kids, Monkey-faced Owl – Owls for Kids
Barn Owl for kids, Monkey-faced Owl - This is the shy, odd-looking, gray and white mottled owl with the triangular face and slim body, about a foot and a half long, that comes out of its hole at evening with a wild scream, startling timid and superstitious people into the belief that it is uncanny.
Fish Hawk Bird, American Osprey – Birds for Kids
Fish Hawk, American Osprey - A pair of these beautiful big hawks, that had nested year after year in the top of a tall pine tree on the Manasquan River, New Jersey, were great pets in that region.
AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK, Mouse Hawk – Birds for Kids
AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK, Mouse Hawk - Just such an extended branch as a shrike or a kingbird would use as a lookout while searching the landscape o'er for something to eat, the little sparrow hawk chooses for the same purpose.
Bald Eagle for Kids – Birds for Kids
Bald Eagle for Kids - Every American boy and girl knows our national bird, which is the farmer's ally, however, only when it appears on the money in his pocket. Without an eagle on that, you must know it would be of little use to him.
COOPER’S HAWK, Chicken Hawk – Birds for Kids
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.
RED-TAILED HAWK, Chicken Hawk, Red Hawk – Birds for Kids
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.
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Hen Hawk, Chicken Hawk, Winter Hawk – Birds for Kids
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Hen Hawk, Chicken Hawk, Winter Hawk - Let any one say "Hawk" to the average farmer and he looks for his gun.
Northern Mockingbird – Birds for Kids
What child is there who does not know the mockingbird, caged or free?
SCARLET TANAGER – Birds for Kids
People who are now living can remember when scarlet tanagers were as common as robins. Where are they now?
CEDAR WAXWING – Birds for Kids
So few birds wear their head feathers crested that it is a simple matter to name them by their top-knots alone,
BUTCHER-BIRDS OR SHRIKES – Birds for Kids
Is it not curious that among our so-called song birds there should be two, about the size of robins, the loggerhead and the northern shrike,
WARBLING VIREO – Birds for Kids
High up in the top of elms and maples that line village streets where the red-eyed vireo loves to hunt, even among the trees of so busy a thoroughfare as Boston Common,
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO – Birds for Kids
In a family not conspicuous for its fine feathers, this is certainly the beauty.
WHITE-EYED VIREO – Birds for Kids
It is not often that you can get close enough to any bird to see the white of his eyes, but the brighter olive green of this vivacious little white-eyed vireo's upper parts,
RED-EYED VIREO – Birds for Kids
Almost everywhere in the Eastern United States and Canada, the red-eyed vireo is the most common member of his family.
Redstart bird – Birds for Kids
When this exquisite little warbler flashes his brilliant salmon flame and black feathers among the trees, darting hither and thither,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT – Birds for Kids
"Now he barks like a puppy, then quacks like a duck, then rattles like a kingfisher, then squalls like a fox, then caws like a crow, then mews like a cat—C-r-r-r-r-r-whrr—that's it—Chee-quack,
OVEN-BIRD – Birds for Kids
"Teacher—Teacher—TEACHER—TEACHER—TEACHER!" resounds a penetrating, accented voice from the woods.
YELLOW WARBLER – Birds for Kids
Rather than live where the skies are gray and the air is cold, this adventurous little warbler will travel two thousand miles or more to follow the sun.