The Bird BookD.C. Heath, 1908 - 276 pages |
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barn bill bird's birds migrate black-billed cuckoo blackbird Bonaparte's gull breast brown build called cents claws coast color cormorants cow-bird cuckoo dark ducks eaves eaves-swallow eggs English sparrow eyes feathers feed feet fish flock flycatchers foot fulmars gannet grebe green ground gulls habits hawk head heron horned owl insects kind Latin name legs light little birds live loggerhead shrike look loon male martin migrate mountain nearly nest never night North northern northern shrike notice observed pelican perch perhaps petrels pine grosbeak plain birds purple martin red-eyed vireo reddish egret robin ruffed grouse sandpipers seen shape sharp-shinned hawk shrike side snow sometimes sooty grouse species SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER spring subspecies summer swallows swim tail tell terns thrush toes tree twigs usually vireo warbler wings winter woodpecker woods worm yellow young