For the Birds: An Uncommon GuideU of Minnesota Press |
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... heads as we go to sleep at night . Birds bring to our human world nourishment , warmth , inspiration , beauty , and enjoyment — and all that before we look through our first pair of binoculars . We arrive on this planet unaware of ...
... heads as we go to sleep at night . Birds bring to our human world nourishment , warmth , inspiration , beauty , and enjoyment — and all that before we look through our first pair of binoculars . We arrive on this planet unaware of ...
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... carries the whole thing off , but sometimes it just picks at it a bit , leaving the bones and head as a gratuity for fine service and an excellent meal . 4 Uncontrollable shivering is evidence of hypother- mia in humans. Notes January.
... carries the whole thing off , but sometimes it just picks at it a bit , leaving the bones and head as a gratuity for fine service and an excellent meal . 4 Uncontrollable shivering is evidence of hypother- mia in humans. Notes January.
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... heads aptly give them a gentler appearance . Pine Grosbeak plumage is thicker and softer than the finest velvet , as they sometimes give us opportunity to discover firsthand . Many birds of the Far North are unafraid of humans , but the ...
... heads aptly give them a gentler appearance . Pine Grosbeak plumage is thicker and softer than the finest velvet , as they sometimes give us opportunity to discover firsthand . Many birds of the Far North are unafraid of humans , but the ...
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... head . The crest is also lowered during foraging and preening . The skin beneath the crest raises and lowers it in the same way that our skin raises goose bumps . No other North American corvids have crests , but many unrelated birds do ...
... head . The crest is also lowered during foraging and preening . The skin beneath the crest raises and lowers it in the same way that our skin raises goose bumps . No other North American corvids have crests , but many unrelated birds do ...
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... 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 so early , and ...
... 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 so early , and ...
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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.