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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches) Title: British birds Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925 Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: , and crow and jayand pie are yearly diminishing in numbers, and the raven, drivenfrom its inland haunts, clings to existence in the wildest and mostinaccessible parts of the coast. The reason of this is that the jack-daw is more adaptive than the other species. He has been com-pared in this respect to the house-sparrow, for he can exist in townas well as country, and readily adapts himself to new surroundings.The variety of sites he uses for breeding purposes shows how plasticare his habits. He breeds apart from his fellows, like the carrioncrow ; or in communities, like the rook and chough. He builds inhollow trees in parks and woods, in rabbit-burrows, in ruins, church-towers, and buildings of all kinds; and in holes and crevices incliffs, whether inland or facing the sea, where he lives in companywith the rock-pigeon and the puffin. At Flamborough,* Seebohmsays, the jackdaws are very abundant. A repubUcan might callthem the aristocracy of the cliflfs. Like the modem noble, or fcha Text Appearing After Image: Rooks Jackdaws. SiARUNoa. JACKDAW 165 monks of the Middle Ages, they contrive to eat the fat of the landwithout any ostensible means of living. They apparently claim anhereditary right in the cliffs ; for they catch no fish, and do no work,but levy blackmail on the silly guillemots, stealing the fish whichthe male has brought to t
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