Category: Science - Biology
Barn or White Owl, Tawny or Wood Owl, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Little Owl, the Rook, Hooded Crow, Carrion Crow, Raven, Jackdaw, Jay, Magpie, Quail, Black-headed Gull, Starling, Rose Starling, Waxwing.
The Barn Owl builds no regular nest, but lays its eggs in the walls of ruined castles, on the inner sills of towers, or in the dust and sweepings that collect in the corners of...
12. CHAPTER V.The Wryneck is a migrant, which makes itself heard as soon as it appears with its _Kyen-kyen-kyen_ or _pay, pay, pay_, which is as peculiar as it is pleasing. It cannot be denie...
13. CHAPTER VI.This is among birds what the street-boy is in the towns--merry, audacious, obtrusive and quarrelsome, always moving and picking up what it can. A human habitation without Sparro...
14. CHAPTER VII.The reedlands and meadow-lands, moist fields, marsh and lake districts, would be desolate and lifeless without the beautiful Lapwings. They wheel and flap, and twist, and wheel...
15. CHAPTER VIII.In Scotland the living prey of the Golden Eagle, called there the Black Eagle, consists largely of mountain hares, but it takes lambs, grouse and other birds, sometimes even faw...
11. CHAPTER IV.The nest of the Swallow is in the shape of half a saucer, quite open, and formed of clay, into which straw and grass are cleverly kneaded. It is built in old huts, in chimneys,...
16. CHAPTER IX.Only a savage, or an ignorant man, can harm or wish to get rid of a bird before he has convinced himself that it is harmful. I have said already that in the abstract there are n...
8. CHAPTER I.The Hungarian Central Office for Ornithology was instituted in 1804, in accordance with a scheme submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture by Mr. Otto Herman, then a member of th...
7. Chapter IX. The Rational Protection of Birds 369The systematic study of the economic value of birds in their relation to agriculture has been carried out in Hungary of late years more indefatigably than in most other parts of...
9. CHAPTER II.Let us now consider the bird’s bodily structure. Every child knows that the bird’s body is covered with feathers or down, and that what, in the case of mammals are fore-feet, in...
3. Chapter V. The Farmer’s Summer Friends 139Wryneck, Cuckoo, Hoopoe, Great Grey Shrike, Lesser Grey Shrike, Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Nightingale, Redstart, Tree-Pipit, Wagtails, Great Reed Warbler,...
1. Chapter III. Workers on the Ground 25Barn or White Owl, Tawny or Wood Owl, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Little Owl, the Rook, Hooded Crow, Carrion Crow, Raven, Jackdaw, Jay, Magpie, Quail, Black-headed Gull, St...
4. Chapter VI. Workers all the year round 2255. Chapter VII. Some Wildfowl 2832. Chapter IV. In the Air and on the Trees 1056. Chapter VIII. Some of the Falconidæ 333