id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27465 Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George) Birds in the Calendar .txt text/plain 20365 720 65 watched the birds at the nests on short winter days year after year, but majority of birds came to build nests at all, instead of remaining trees and may, like the jay and magpie, destroy the eggs of game birds. regard the smaller birds as resenting the parasitic habit in the cuckoo purpose the nests of numerous small birds which it knows to be suitable. Like the owls, these birds sleep during the day and are active only when exceptional cases have been noted in which the young birds had evidently The nests of these birds show, as a rule, little departure from the nests of wild birds of which we, who academically regard their food as positively seeing one or other of the parent birds fly off the nest. that the robin has to make its nest earlier than most of our wild birds, ./cache/27465.txt ./txt/27465.txt