Over 100 Bird Images For Your Delight

Birds Every Child Should Know is an illustrated collection of story-like descriptions of more than one hundred birds commonly found in the United States.Blanchan's writing is elegant and fun. You'll chuckle to yourself while your imagination listens to sounds birds make described by Blanchan's words. A beautiful must have for kids and adults alike.

Take for instance the yellow breasted chat:

"Now he barks like a puppy, then quacks like a duck, then rattles like a kingfisher, then squalls like a fox, then caws like a crow, then mews like a cat-C-r-r-r-r-r-whrr-that's it-Chee-quack, cluck, yit-yit-yit-now-hit it-tr-r-r-r-wheu-caw-caw-cut, cut-tea-boy-who, who-mew, mew," writes John Burroughs of this rollicking polyglot, the chat; but not even that close student of nature could set down on paper all the multitude of queer sounds with which the bird amuses himself. He might be mistaken for a dozen different birds and animals in as many minutes.

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