The crow flies down to the ground, and walks about in the fields.
He is the birds’ farmer. Toward evening, when he cries, “Caw! Caw!” he means that the earth needs rain.
The owl is the night policeman. He watches the rats and mice, and keeps them out of the farmer’s fields.
The kingbirds are the soldiers. They fight the birds that come over from the next forest, and drive them away.
The hawks have sharp eyes, and can see a long way. They are the scouts, and tell the soldiers when the enemy is coming.
The whip-poor-wills can see in the night, so they are the birds’ night watchmen.
The orioles are weavers. They weave their nests, and hang them in the tallest trees.
One of the birds is a thief, and steals eggs from the nests of the other birds, but I shall not tell you his name.
So all of the birds have work to do in the forest.