Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... trees , and even low bushes on the plains ; is very active and restless , incessantly moving about from branch to branch , clinging to the twigs , and feeding on various insects , grubs , and caterpil- lars , and also on flower buds ...
... trees , and even low bushes on the plains ; is very active and restless , incessantly moving about from branch to branch , clinging to the twigs , and feeding on various insects , grubs , and caterpil- lars , and also on flower buds ...
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... tree an hour or two after daybreak , and again about the dusk of the evening . These love notes , however , are not of long con- tinuance , for the bird becomes silent after the young are hatched , unless a second brood is reared , when ...
... tree an hour or two after daybreak , and again about the dusk of the evening . These love notes , however , are not of long con- tinuance , for the bird becomes silent after the young are hatched , unless a second brood is reared , when ...
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... Tree Pipit , sometimes re - alighting elsewhere . The song , which is commenced on arrival , generally ceases early ... trees are favourite morsels with this bird , and we should not forget that if it takes a few currants it is also the ...
... Tree Pipit , sometimes re - alighting elsewhere . The song , which is commenced on arrival , generally ceases early ... trees are favourite morsels with this bird , and we should not forget that if it takes a few currants it is also the ...
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... trees it flies from branch to branch . " Although generally distributed in England and Scotland , the Redstart is nowhere very common , being most plentiful , apparently , in the southern counties of England , and becoming rarer as we ...
... trees it flies from branch to branch . " Although generally distributed in England and Scotland , the Redstart is nowhere very common , being most plentiful , apparently , in the southern counties of England , and becoming rarer as we ...
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... tree against a wall ; upon a cross- beam of a summer - house ; or in a hole of a wall or tree , as opportunity may serve . The eggs are very similar to those of the Hedge Sparrow , but are invariably smaller and paler . It picks up most ...
... tree against a wall ; upon a cross- beam of a summer - house ; or in a hole of a wall or tree , as opportunity may serve . The eggs are very similar to those of the Hedge Sparrow , but are invariably smaller and paler . It picks up most ...
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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 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
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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 Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist