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Title: Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 Dearborn, Ned, 1865-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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BURROWING OWL. (After Biological Survey.) myth. The owl and the snake are both parasites, the dog,an unwilling host, being forced to yield its home and often itslife to its unwelcome guests.
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SPARROW-HAWKS.(After Biological Survey.) CHAPTER XVIII.THE HAWKS, EAGLES, KITES, AND VULTURES. THE HAWKS. The Sparrow-Hawk is one of the most abundant speciesof its family in many parts of North America. It is a smalland handsome hawk, and breeds throughout the UnitedStates, as well as in Mexico on the south and in Canada onthe north. It goes south in autumn, occasionally passing thewinter as far north as southern New York. Its nest is builtin holes in trees, those made by the larger woodpeckers oftenbeing appropriated for the purpose, and five eggs are usuallydeposited. It is a valuable bird and deserves protection andencouragement. Dr. A. K. Fisher, who made a special studyof its economic relations, writes that it is almost exclusivelyinsectivorous, except when insect food is difficult to obtain.In localities where grasshoppers and crickets are abundant,these hawks congregate, often in moderate-sized flocks, andgorge themselves continuously. Rarely do they touch anyother form of foo

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