Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song?
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Tag: red eyed bird
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.
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House Sparrow – Birds for Kids
Is there a boy or girl in America who does not already know this saucy, keen-witted little gamin who thrives where other birds would starve;
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ORCHARD ORIOLE BIRD – Birds for Kids
ORCHARD ORIOLE. Fortunately many other birds besides this oriole prefer to live in orchards; otherwise think how many worm-eaten apples there would be!
Read moreYELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER – Birds for Kids
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER – Birds for Kids – This woodpecker I am sorry to introduce to you as the black sheep of his family, with scarcely a friend to speak a good word for him.
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WOOD THRUSH, Song Thrush, Wood Robin, Bell Bird – Birds for Kids
Much more shy and reserved than the social, democratic robin is his cousin the wood thrush, whom, perhaps, you more frequently hear than see.
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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,
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CHIPPING SPARROW – Birds for Kids
This summer a pair of the sociable, friendly little chippies—the smallest members of their clan—decided that they would build in a little boxwood tree on the verandah of our house next to the front door through which members of the family passed every hour of the day.
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BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Golden Oriole) – Birds for Kids
BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Golden Oriole). A flash of flame among the tender young spring foliage; a rich, high, whistled song from the blossoming cherry trees, and every child knows that the sociable Baltimore oriole has just returned from Central America.
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RED-HEADED WOODPECKER – Birds for Kids
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER – Birds for Kids. A pair of red-headed woodpeckers I know, who made their home in an old tree next to the station yard at Atlanta, where locomotives clanged, puffed, whistled and shrieked all day long, evidently enjoyed the noise, for the male liked nothing better than to add to it by tapping on one of the glass non-conductors around which a telegraph wire ran.
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Black Capped Chickadee – Birds for Kids
Bitterly cold and dreary though the day may be, that “little scrap of valour,” the chickadee, keeps his spirits high until ours cannot but be cheered by the oft-repeated, clear, tinkling silvery notes that spell his name.
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YELLOW-THROATED VIREO – Birds for Kids
In a family not conspicuous for its fine feathers, this is certainly the beauty.
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TREE SPARROW – Birds for Kids
When the friendly little chippy leaves us in autumn, this similar but larger sparrow cousin comes into the United States from the North,
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PURPLE GRACKLE and BRONZED GRACKLE – Birds for Kids
PURPLE GRACKLE and BRONZED GRACKLE. You probably know either one of our two crow blackbirds, similar in size and habits, one with purplish,
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FLICKER BIRD, Yellow-hammer bird, Clape, Yucker – Birds for Kids
FLICKER BIRD, Yellow-hammer bird, Clape, Yucker – Birds for Kids – Why should the flicker discard family traditions and wear clothes so different from those of his relations?
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TUFTED TITMOUSE – Birds for Kids
Don’t expect to meet the tufted titmouse if you live very far north of Washington. He is common only in the South and West.
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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,
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WHITE-THROATED SPARROW – Birds for Kids
“What’s in a name?” Our English cousins over the border are quite sure they hear this sparrow sing the praises of Swee-e-et Can-a-da, Can-a-da, Can-a-da-ah,
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AMERICAN CROW – Birds for Kids
AMERICAN CROW. Two close relatives there are which, like the poor, are always with us—the crow and the blue jay. Both are mischievous rascals, extraordinarily clever, with the most highly developed brains that any of our birds possess.
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YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, Rain Crow – Birds for Kids
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, Rain Crow – Do you own a cuckoo clock with a little bird inside that flies out of a door every hour and tells you the time? Except when it is time to go to school or to bed you are doubtless amused to hear him hiccough cuckoo, cuckoo, the mechanical notes that tell his name.
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