Neltje Blanchan

“{{cite web|title=The House Wren by Neltje Blanchan|website=Section 31 of the The Emerald Story Book, LibriVox||url=https://ia600108.us.archive.org/30/items/emeraldstorybook_2106_librivox/emeraldstorybook_31_various_128kb.mp3}}”

“{{commons category-inline}}”

“{{wikipedia-inline}}”

“High up in the air, sometime a mile or more above the earth, if the weather be clear, travel flocks of migrants where they can obtain a bird's-eye view of the country to be traversed. Geese have been detected four miles high. Rivers running like silver threads across the map, {{w|mountain range}}s, {{w|valley}}s, and the seacoast line, must be far more familiar to the birds that follow them systematically than to Macaulay's schoolboy.”

“        {{w|Family (biology)|Family}} {{w|Corvidae}}: CROWS AND JAYSThe crows are large black birds, walkers, with stout feet adapted for the purpose. Fond of shifting their residence at different seasons rather than strictly migratory, for, except at the northern limit of range, they remain resident all the year. Gregarious. Sexes alike. Omnivorous feeders, being partly carnivorous as are also the {{w|jays}}. Both crows and jays inhabit wooded country. Their voices are boisterous and bold, particularly the jays. Devoted mates; unpleasant neighbors.”