Know the birds

Abstract

It is a common thing to see birds kept in cages and many of the readers of this booklet will be familiar with the names of such cage-birds. But when we walk in the country or sit in the public gardens how many of us are familiar with the birds that delight us with their song or flit about us gaily at work? Yet it is the birds that move freely in these surroundings that charm us best: in fact there are many persons particularly in other countries who make "bird watching" their hobby and whose delight it is to remain hidden for hours near bird haunted places not to kill the birds nor to take , their eggs but for the joy of getting to know more about those lovely Creatures of God. [Foreword by Margaret Mortimer]