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A Child's First Book
About Our Most
Familiar Birds
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BIRDS
hy Jane Werner Watson
pictures hy Eloise Wilkin

Qjb GOLDEN PRESS

Western Publishing Company, Inc.
Racine, Wisconsin
 In this first book, a sense of the joy and wonder of
birds is created for every child through Eloise Wilkin's
sensitive illustrations and Jane Werner Watson's
informative text. The songbirds in the trees, the
waders of seashore and river, pigeons and chickens
— over twenty birds have been simply described and
vividly pictured in a way that every child will enjoy.

Sixth Printing, 1975

Copyright © 1958 by Western Publishing Company, Inc.

All rights reserved. Produced in U.S.A.

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 Birds can fly.

They fly high.

Some fly miles across the sky.
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Purple Martins

In the spring birds build nests. Not to rest in.

They build nests for their eggs, for their young.
Some birds bring twigs and leaves, bits of string.

What a nest!

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Day and night mother bird

and father bird watch their eggs.

They keep them safe and warm. Wood Thrushes

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out slip baby birds.

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feathers.

But they are hungry. They can eat. Oh my!

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What do the babies eat?
Worms and grubs,
beetles and bugs
and tiny insect eggs.
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They can eat ever so much

caterpillars, grasshoppers, ants and
flies and such.
 Soon the young birds grow feathers.

They have lessons to learn.

They must learn to mind Mother,
and to find their food.
Some take a turn at learning to swim.
 And most birds learn to fly.

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^' how they find their way. For they fly hundreds of
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Tree Swallows

Some birds catch their food as they fly. They

snap up moths and other insects going by. They
have beaks that can snap shut fast.
 Many birds like

grain and seeds.

Chickens, Pigeons

They have short, sharp bills

for pecking. They crack seeds open

or swallow foods whole.

 Fruits and berries are the foods some birds
need. They swallow the berries.
Then they scatter the seeds.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Cedar Waxwing
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Summer passes. Weeds and grasses fade.

Fruits disappear.
 Cold winds shake the trees and bushes.
Winter time is near.

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Warbler
 Something tells the birds to fly southward.
Off" in flocks they go.

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Larks and warblers, thrushes, thrashers, ,

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off they fly with a honk or a cry.

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Woodpecker

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Some birds stay. \\ ,

Bread and suet and seeds are the food

a bird needs in the cold.
On the snow you may see

a small chickadee hunting seeds.

 The spring will bring back many birds
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They will nest, raise their broods,
hunt their foods, sometimes rest.

The right time for each they know best.

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