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Northern Mockingbird – Birds for Kids

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

What child is there who does not know the mockingbird, caged or free?

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

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

Probably this is the most abundant swallow that we have; certainly countless numbers assemble every year in the Long Island and Jersey marshes,

CARDINAL GROSBEAK (Virginia Nightingale) – Birds for Kids

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

It was on a cold January day in Central Park, New York, that I first met a cardinal and was warmed by the sight.

LEAST FLYCATCHER (Chebec) – Birds for Kids

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

It is not until he calls out his name, Chebec! Chebec! in clear and business-like tones from some tree-top that you could identify this fluffy flycatcher, scarcely more than five inches long, whose dusky coat and light vest offer no helpful markings.

Birds for Kids – LEAST SANDPIPER

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

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

YELLOW WARBLER – Birds for Kids

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

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.

SONG SPARROW – Birds for Kids

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

This is most children’s favourite bird: is it yours?

BOBOLINK BIRD – Birds for Kids

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

Such a rollicking, jolly singer is the bobolink! On a May morning, when buttercups spangle the fresh grasses in the meadows, he rises from their midst into the air with the merriest frolic of a song you ever heard.

WHIP-POOR-WILL BIRD – Birds for Kids

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

A queer, shadowy bird, that sleeps all day in the dense wood and flies about through open country after dark as softly as an owl, would be difficult for any child to know were it not for the weird, snappy triplets of notes that tell his name. Every one knows him far better by sound than by sight.

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

OVEN-BIRD – Birds for Kids

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

“Teacher—Teacher—TEACHER—TEACHER—TEACHER!” resounds a penetrating, accented voice from the woods.

SWAMP SPARROW – Birds for Kids

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

Where rails thread their way among the rushes, and red-winged blackbirds, marsh wrens, and Maryland yellow-throats like to live, there listen for the tweet-tweet-tweet of the swamp sparrow.

COWBIRD – Birds for Kids

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

This contemptible bird every child should know if for no better reason than to despise it.

NIGHTHAWK BIRD (Bull-bat, Night-jar, Mosquito-hawk) – Birds for Kids

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

Did you ever hear a rushing, whirring, booming sound as though wind were blowing across the bung-hole of an empty barrel?

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

YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT – Birds for Kids

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

“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,

FIELD SPARROW – Birds for Kids

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

While the neighbourly song sparrow and the swamp sparrow delight to be near water,

RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD – Birds for Kids

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

When you are looking for the first pussy willows in the frozen marshes, or listening to the peeping of young frogs some day in early spring,

CHIMNEY SWIFT – Birds for Kids

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

There are some children, and grown-ups, too, who persist in calling this bird the chimney swallow, although it is not even remotely related to the swallow family, and its life history, as well as its anatomy, are quite different from a swallow’s, as you shall see.

GREAT BLUE HERON – Birds for Kids

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

GREAT BLUE HERON – Birds for Kids – excerpt from the book “Birds Every Child Should Know” by Neltje Blanchan

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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

Birds for Kids – LEAST SANDPIPER

YELLOW WARBLER – Birds for Kids

SONG SPARROW – Birds for Kids

BOBOLINK BIRD – Birds for Kids

WHIP-POOR-WILL BIRD – Birds for Kids

Birds for Kids – SPOTTED SANDPIPER

OVEN-BIRD – Birds for Kids

SWAMP SPARROW – Birds for Kids

COWBIRD – Birds for Kids

NIGHTHAWK BIRD (Bull-bat, Night-jar, Mosquito-hawk) – Birds for Kids

WOODCOCK Bird – Birds for Kids

YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT – Birds for Kids

FIELD SPARROW – Birds for Kids

RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD – Birds for Kids

CHIMNEY SWIFT – Birds for Kids

GREAT BLUE HERON – Birds for Kids

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