Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsSwan Sonnenschein and Company, 1889 - 336 páginas |
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... observed at sea during their passage , often at a considerable distance from land . But how few of those who notice them in this country know where they come from , why they come , what they find here to live upon , how , when , and ...
... observed at sea during their passage , often at a considerable distance from land . But how few of those who notice them in this country know where they come from , why they come , what they find here to live upon , how , when , and ...
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... observed - the Cirl Bunting ; and , to return to the Wheatears , these birds , which were formerly so plentiful in autumn that the shepherds trapped them by dozens , are now far less numerous at the same season , and the practice of ...
... observed - the Cirl Bunting ; and , to return to the Wheatears , these birds , which were formerly so plentiful in autumn that the shepherds trapped them by dozens , are now far less numerous at the same season , and the practice of ...
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... observed to take place , owing to a migration from the south and south - east . It takes up its residence on moors and heaths , and many a lonely walk over such ground is enlivened by the sprightly actions and sharp " chook - chook " of ...
... observed to take place , owing to a migration from the south and south - east . It takes up its residence on moors and heaths , and many a lonely walk over such ground is enlivened by the sprightly actions and sharp " chook - chook " of ...
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... observed that the Stonechat is not nearly so abundant as either the Whinchat or the Wheatear , and frequents localities of a more wild and secluded character . It ranges , how- ever , to the extreme north of the mainland of Scotland ...
... observed that the Stonechat is not nearly so abundant as either the Whinchat or the Wheatear , and frequents localities of a more wild and secluded character . It ranges , how- ever , to the extreme north of the mainland of Scotland ...
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... 1 they are also more strictly arboreal in their habits , 1 Dr. Bree states that he has occasionally observed the Willow Wren taking currants from his trees . and as regards the character of their nests , they THE WOOD WARBLER . 19.
... 1 they are also more strictly arboreal in their habits , 1 Dr. Bree states that he has occasionally observed the Willow Wren taking currants from his trees . and as regards the character of their nests , they THE WOOD WARBLER . 19.
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
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amongst Anthus appearance April arrival Blackcap Blyth breed British Birds British Islands Canon Tristram Chiff-chaff claw coast colour common congeners Cuckoo eastward eggs Egypt England Europe feathers Flycatcher frequently Garden Warbler genus Grasshopper Warbler grey ground habits hatched haunts Hist Hoopoe Howard Saunders Ibis India insects instance Ireland June Landrail Lapland Lesser Whitethroat Lord Lilford male Malta Martin Meadow Pipit Mediterranean migration month naturalists neighbourhood nest Nightingale Nightjar Norfolk North Africa noticed observed occasionally occurrence Ornithology Palestine palustris plumage Professor Newton rare Redstart Reed Warbler regular summer remarked resembles Rock Pipit says Scotland season Sedge Warbler seen September Shetland shot song southward species specimens spotted spring and autumn Stonechat strepera summer migrants summer visitant Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist