Bird Neighbors, Birds that Hunt and are Hunted (Game Birds), How to Attract the Birds, Birds Every Child Should Know, etc.  This comprehensive book covers many topics of interest to bird lovers and those interested in wildlife history.

This will be one of your favorite wild life treasures. You will find it profusely illustrated with color plates.... 48 in all. They would look great framed in a small collection. 

Learn the history of birds in our country and how the change began to take hold as the country recognized their contributions to insect, weed and rodent control. "Among the first acts passed in the colonies were bounty law was, not only offering rewards for the heads of certain birds that were condemned without a fair trial, but imposing fixed fines upon the farmer who did not kill his quote each year.... One of the first good effects of the Government's scientific investigation of birds... was the withdraw of bounties by many states.  Pennsylvania...lost her farmers many millions of dollars through the ravages of field mice, because the wholesale slaughter of all hawks and owls... (was) encouraged...."

Learn about different species of birds.  Introducing The Thrush Family - Bluebird, Robin, Wood Thrush, Veery
Length ~ Male and Female differences ~ Living range ~ Migrations
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song?  now wonder the bird has become the symbol of happiness...

Learn interesting facts about birds -
Who is that incessant love-maker who slowly sings coo-o-o, ah-coo-o-o-ooo-o-o-ooo-o-o?
What do you know about the Bald Eagle - Emblem of the republic, standing for freedom to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  
BIRDS WORTH KNOWING

Little Nature Library
Selected by the author from the writings of
NELTJE BLANCHAN
Original publication 1917

Chapters

What Birds Do For Us
The Thrush Family
Some Neighborly Acrobats 
A Family Group of Lovely Singers
The Warblers 
Virbos or Greenlets 
Birds Not of a Feather
The Shallows
The Compressive Sparrow Tribe and Some of its Multitudinous Kin
The Ill-Assorted Blackbird Family
Two Rascally Relations
The Flycatchers 
Some Queer Relations
Carpenters in Feathers
Kingfisher and Cuckoos
Night and Day Game Hungers
Mourner, Martyr, Whistler and Drummer
Birds of the Shore and Marshes
The Fastest Flyers, Simmers and Divers
Color Key
Index

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BLUEBIRD (Cover of book)
ROBIN (frontispiece)
WOOD THRUSH 
VEERY
CHICKADEE
TUFTED TITMOUSE
WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH
BROWN THRASHER
HOUSE WREN
CAROLINA  WREN
MOCKING BIRD
CEDAR WAXWING
CATBIRD
REDSTART
CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER
PURPLE MARTIN
BARN SWALLOW
TREE SWALLOW
ORCHARD ORIOLE
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
TOWHEE
TREE SPARROW
GOLDFINCH
MEADOW -LARK
BOBOLINK
CROW
RUBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD
WHIPPOORWILL
FLICKER 
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO
SCREECH  OWL
SHORT-EARED OWL
BARN OWL
SPARROW-HAWK
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
MARSH HAWK
MOURNING DOVE
PASSENGER PIGEON
BOB-WHITE
RUFFED GROUSE
SORA
SNOWY EGRET
GREEN HERON
SHOVELER
HERRING GULL
PIN-TAILED DUCK
LOON

PREFACE, 1926 Edition

As several hundred thousand readers have been kind enough to approve the author's four previous volumes on birds, it has been suggested that a single volume might be helpful, dealing with the birds most worth knowing and chosen by the author from these writings with the view of interesting an ever-widening circle of new friends in the most appealing form of wild life there is still left about us.

An immense wave of interest in birds recently swept over the country where less than a generation ago was complete indifference to their extermination. Why this change of the people's thought? Largely as the logical result of persistent and highly intelligent educative work by the Audubon Societies, directed by scientific and altruistic men and women, in reaching school children, clubs of many granges, editors, and legislators. Vast quantities of well-written pamphlets and beautiful colored pictures, such as are used to illustrate this book, are distributed annually; bird clubs are actively at work all over the country; Junior Audubon classes graduate fresh recruits; wardens are safeguarding the breeding grounds of the egret, gull, tern, eider, and other birds dangerously near the vanishing point; bird sanctuaries have been established in countless parks, cemeteries, private estates, and public domains; the making of bird houses, fountains, and restaurants has suddenly become a well-advertised business as well as a pastime for every boy and girl who can handle a hammer; people are planting trees, shrubs, and vines especially to attract birds and they systematically feed them all winter; Audubon field agents are lecturing, disseminating literature, button-holing legislators, and looking out for the birds' interests generally in State and National Capitols, interests now backed up by intelligent public opinion so strong as to make the Ultimate passage of protective laws in every state of the Union a foregone conclusion.

The National Conscience was awakened by the demonstration ·of the birds' vast economic value to the country; and with the wide-spread interest now taken in birds as important factors in our agricultural wealth comes a more lively interest in them as neighbors. Indeed a more sane and healthful and sympathetic view of all Nature follows an introduction to the birds that play so important and delightful a role in the great moving picture constantly unrolling its scroll before our eyes. Every one should join the National Association of Audubon Societies not only because there are still some sections of this big country where plucked robins are sold on skewers in the markets, but because there is to-day no American who, consciously or unconsciously, is not already in the Society's debt.

Neltje Blanchan