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Bird Biographies

Alice Eliza Ball and R. Bruce Horsfall

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Give a bird a life story and you never forget it. Alice Ball's biographies portray the common birds of the northeastern winter, describing each permanent resident and visitor around New York with warmth and a keen eye. Nature study made personal. Get to know your winter birds as neighbors with names and habits.

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150 chapters

  1. 1BIRD BIOGRAPHIES A GUIDE-BOOK FOR BEGINNERS
  2. 2ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. 3FOREWORD
  4. 4SPRING TWILIGHT
  5. 5CONTENTS
  6. 6LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. 7DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR COMMON WINTER BIRDS PART TWO
  8. 8WINTER BIRDS Permanent Residents and Winter Visitors
  9. 9BIRDS SEEN DURING THE WINTER NEAR NEW YORK CITY[2]
  10. 10PERMANENT RESIDENTS
  11. 11WINTER RESIDENTS AND VISITORS
  12. 12DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOGRAPHIES THE BLUE JAY Crow Family—Corvidæ
  13. 13FLORIDA JAYS
  14. 14PACIFIC COAST JAYS
  15. 15THE CANADA JAY
  16. 16THE AMERICAN CROW Crow Family—Corvidæ
  17. 17THE RAVEN
  18. 18THE CARDINAL Cardinal Grosbeak, Redbird, Virginia Nightingale

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