For the Birds: An Uncommon GuideU of Minnesota Press |
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... drops below 65 degrees , and smaller birds like nuthatches and chickadees shiver when it's even warmer . A bird is like a ... drop its temperature over 12 degrees at nighttime . For added insulation to conserve heat produced by shivering ...
... drops below 65 degrees , and smaller birds like nuthatches and chickadees shiver when it's even warmer . A bird is like a ... drop its temperature over 12 degrees at nighttime . For added insulation to conserve heat produced by shivering ...
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... dropping on his head throughout the neighborhood — letter carriers are often the first to notice White - winged Crossbills . I get a phone call about a robin in a Cloquet mountain ash . The caller is surprised that one would come back ...
... dropping on his head throughout the neighborhood — letter carriers are often the first to notice White - winged Crossbills . I get a phone call about a robin in a Cloquet mountain ash . The caller is surprised that one would come back ...
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... drop right through . They apparently don't spend those long arctic summer days talking to Santa Claus . 214phone ringing a small voice , maybe twelve or A phone ringing at night summons with urgency . thirteen . Someone from the DNR ...
... drop right through . They apparently don't spend those long arctic summer days talking to Santa Claus . 214phone ringing a small voice , maybe twelve or A phone ringing at night summons with urgency . thirteen . Someone from the DNR ...
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... drops to the ground . Biblical scholars with an ornithological bent suggest that ravens didn't actually bring food to Elijah — he just chanced upon provender dropping from a nest above . Ravens eat some items that not even a starving ...
... drops to the ground . Biblical scholars with an ornithological bent suggest that ravens didn't actually bring food to Elijah — he just chanced upon provender dropping from a nest above . Ravens eat some items that not even a starving ...
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... dropping to the ground . The bizarre feature that gives the crossbill its name is an adaptation for tearing off the sheaths of pine and spruce cones . The bird then uses its long , muscular tongue to extract the seeds . I've ...
... dropping to the ground . The bizarre feature that gives the crossbill its name is an adaptation for tearing off the sheaths of pine and spruce cones . The bird then uses its long , muscular tongue to extract the seeds . I've ...
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Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.