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Title: Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 Dearborn, Ned
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia London : Lippincott
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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phical race of tlie famous peregrinefalcon of Europe. As its common name implies, it feedslargely on water-fowl, and is seldom found far away from thecoast or the neighborhood of large bodies of water. When apair breed in tlie vicinity of a i)oultry yard,—a rare event,—the chickens are liable to suffer severely. Among its other feathered victims one linds the meadow-lark, robin, cat-bird, mourning-dove, gray-cheeked thrush, andvarious warblers and sparrows. In Florida it feeds largelyupjn the coot, enormous numbers of which still inhabit theinland lakes. At times it is very destructive to terns alongthe Atlantic coast. The beautiful Osprey, or Fish-Hawk, is of chief interest onaccount of its relations to the bald eagle, which so persistentlyrobs the osprey of its prey in nud-air. The fish-hawk ischiefly a bird of the shore-line, Avliere it finds its foodabundant. The Marsh Hawk, sometimes also called the Marsh Har-liiKii. inhabits almost the Nvliole of Xoilli Ainei-icji. bieediii^
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THE HAWKS. EAGLES, KITES, AND Vri/n^RES. 218 from Cuba to Alaska, It is most abundant in the jjrairieStates. The nest is placed upon the ground in marshy situ-ations, wliere grass and sedges help conceal it. From four tosix young are reared in each brood. This i.s one of the mostuseful of the hawks and deserves mans protection. * Itsfood/ writes Dr. Fisher, consists largely of small rodents,such as meadow-mice, half-grown squirrels, rabbits, andground-squirrels. In fact, so extensively does it feed uponthe last-named animals, that the writer rarely has examineda stomach from the West which did not contain their remains.In addition to the above, it preys upon lizards, frogs, snakes,insects, and birds ; of the latter, the smaller ground-dwellingspecies are usually taken. When hard pressed it is said tofeed on otial and carrion ; and in spring and fall when water-fowl are abundant it occasionally preys upon the dead andwounded birds left by gunners. The stomach of a speci-men shot at Han

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