Hidden among the tall grasses and reeds along the creeks and rivers, lives the long-billed marsh wren, a nervous, active little creature that you know at a glance.
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BARN SWALLOW BIRD – Birds for Kids
Do you know where there is an old-fashioned, weather-worn barn, with its hospitable doors standing open, where you could not find at least one pair of barn swallows at home beneath its roof?
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TOWHEE BIRD – Birds for Kids
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,
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PHOEBE BIRD (Dusky Flycatcher) – Birds for Kids
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.
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BOB-WHITE Bird, Partridge bird – Birds for Kids
BOB-WHITE Bird, Partridge bird – What a cheerful contrast is Bob White’s clear, staccato whistle to the drawing coo of the amorous dove! Character is often expressed in a bird’s voice as well as in ours.
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Brown Thrasher Bird – Birds for Kids
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.
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CLIFF SWALLOW – Birds for Kids
More than any other bird family, the swallows are becoming increasingly dependent for shelter upon man, at least when they are nesting;
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RED-BREASTED GROSBEAK – Birds for Kids
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.
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WOOD PEWEE BIRD – Birds for Kids
When you have been wandering through the summer woods did you ever, like Trowbridge, sit down
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Birds for Kids – SPOTTED SANDPIPER
Birds for Kids – SPOTTED SANDPIPER – excerpt from the book “Birds Every Child Should Know” by Neltje Blanchan
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CATBIRD – Birds for Kids
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.
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BANK SWALLOW (Sand Martin; Sand Swallow) – Birds for Kids
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.
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CARDINAL GROSBEAK (Virginia Nightingale) – Birds for Kids
It was on a cold January day in Central Park, New York, that I first met a cardinal and was warmed by the sight.
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LEAST FLYCATCHER (Chebec) – Birds for Kids
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.
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GREAT BLUE HERON – Birds for Kids
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
What child is there who does not know the mockingbird, caged or free?
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TREE SWALLOW (White-breasted Swallow) – Birds for Kids
Probably this is the most abundant swallow that we have; certainly countless numbers assemble every year in the Long Island and Jersey marshes,
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BOBOLINK BIRD – Birds for Kids
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.
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WHIP-POOR-WILL BIRD – Birds for Kids
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.
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BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON – Birds for Kids
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON – Birds for Kids – excerpt from the book “Birds Every Child Should Know” by Neltje Blanchan
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