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.
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Tag: types of black birds
SONG SPARROW – Birds for Kids
This is most children’s favourite bird: is it yours?
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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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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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OVEN-BIRD – Birds for Kids
“Teacher—Teacher—TEACHER—TEACHER—TEACHER!” resounds a penetrating, accented voice from the woods.
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SWAMP SPARROW – Birds for Kids
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.
Read moreCOWBIRD – Birds for Kids
This contemptible bird every child should know if for no better reason than to despise it.
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NIGHTHAWK BIRD (Bull-bat, Night-jar, Mosquito-hawk) – Birds for Kids
Did you ever hear a rushing, whirring, booming sound as though wind were blowing across the bung-hole of an empty barrel?
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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
Read moreYELLOW-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,
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FIELD SPARROW – Birds for Kids
While the neighbourly song sparrow and the swamp sparrow delight to be near water,
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RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD – Birds for Kids
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,
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CHIMNEY SWIFT – Birds for Kids
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.
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AMERICAN BITTERN, Stake-driver, Booming Bittern, Indian Hen – Birds for Kids
AMERICAN BITTERN, Stake-driver, Booming Bittern, Indian Hen – Birds for Kids – excerpt from the book “Birds Every Child Should Know” by Neltje Blanchan
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AMERICAN ROBIN – Birds for Kids
Called also: Red-breasted Thrush; Migratory Thrush; Robin Redbreast
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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,
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VESPER SPARROW – Birds for Kids
To name this little dingy sparrow that haunts the open fields and dusty roadsides, you must notice the white feather on each side of his tail as he spreads it and flies before you to alight upon a fence.
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RUSTY BLACKBIRD – Birds for Kids
This cousin of the red-wing, whom it resembles in size, flight and notes, is a common migrant in the United States. Nesting is done farther north.
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DOWNY WOODPECKER – Birds for Kids
DOWNY WOODPECKER – Birds for Kids – A hardy little friend is the downy woodpecker who, like the chickadee, stays by us the year around. Probably no other two birds are so useful in our orchards as these, that keep up a tireless search for the insect robbers of our fruit.
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