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... it's even warmer . A bird is like a well - insulated cabin , but instead of burning wood or oil , it metabolizes ... its temperature over 12 degrees at nighttime . For added insulation to conserve heat produced by shivering , birds grow ...
... it's even warmer . A bird is like a well - insulated cabin , but instead of burning wood or oil , it metabolizes ... its temperature over 12 degrees at nighttime . For added insulation to conserve heat produced by shivering , birds grow ...
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... it's usually found at a suet feeder . Birds eat suet as is , but some people prefer to melt it and skim the purified ... its . Winter birds don't lug around that much extra bulk , but when food is adequate they do maintain about 10 ...
... it's usually found at a suet feeder . Birds eat suet as is , but some people prefer to melt it and skim the purified ... its . Winter birds don't lug around that much extra bulk , but when food is adequate they do maintain about 10 ...
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... its beak is tiny and fragile and its vestigial tongue worthless for manipulating food ; this relative of the Whip - poor - will can eat nothing on its own except flying insects . I hand - feed my January birds mealworms , crickets , and ...
... its beak is tiny and fragile and its vestigial tongue worthless for manipulating food ; this relative of the Whip - poor - will can eat nothing on its own except flying insects . I hand - feed my January birds mealworms , crickets , and ...
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... its wings unable to support the added weight of the enormous meal . After it spends some time in solitary digestion , it's off to join the others — perhaps to regale them with Dickensian tales of its misadventures . 10 The most ...
... its wings unable to support the added weight of the enormous meal . After it spends some time in solitary digestion , it's off to join the others — perhaps to regale them with Dickensian tales of its misadventures . 10 The most ...
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... its crest to show aggression , displaying it most conspicuously when fighting over territory or a mate or when mobbing an owl or other predator . When courting and feeding young , a jay flattens the crest tightly against the head . The ...
... its crest to show aggression , displaying it most conspicuously when fighting over territory or a mate or when mobbing an owl or other predator . When courting and feeding young , a jay flattens the crest tightly against the head . The ...
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Seite 23 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Seite 14 - THERE WAS A LITTLE MAN THEEE was a little man and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead ; He went to the brook, and saw a little duck, And shot it through the head, head, head.
Seite 12 - I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Seite 17 - Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome. Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches, - a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!
Seite 14 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.