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A Robin and his Young
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A Robin and his Young

  • CHARLIE WOODS1 

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LAST summer a pair of robins built their nest in an old fish-basket that was hanging in a shed at the back of my house. All went well until the young birds were about a week old—then happened what appeared to me to be a catastrophe. My Aberdeen terrier pup “Bebe”, who must have had some natural desire to catch the mother bird, managed one morning to make a meal of her.

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WOODS, C. A Robin and his Young. Nature 86, 281 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086281c0

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