. How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters . Younof Red-Tailed Hawk, witli full crop after big Sharp-Sliinned IlaAvk. Just delivered to voiing nuo.—pp. i,9ir,o BIRDS OF PREY 151 The poultry-yard affords some episodes In hawk orowl story, but It Is unfair to attribute depredationsto all kinds of hawks. The Coopers and sharp-shinned hawks and the great horned owl are the worsttransgressors, also the rare goshawk when It Is withus. The so-called hen-hawks only occasionally at-tack poultry, generally in winter when other food isscarce. Most of the haw
. How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters . Younof Red-Tailed Hawk, witli full crop after big Sharp-Sliinned IlaAvk. Just delivered to voiing nuo.—pp. i,9ir,o BIRDS OF PREY 151 The poultry-yard affords some episodes In hawk orowl story, but It Is unfair to attribute depredationsto all kinds of hawks. The Coopers and sharp-shinned hawks and the great horned owl are the worsttransgressors, also the rare goshawk when It Is withus. The so-called hen-hawks only occasionally at-tack poultry, generally in winter when other food isscarce. Most of the hawks migrate south for the winter,though a few Individuals of all kinds sometimes re-main to brave the cold. The red-tall is usually thecommonest resident hawk in winter. The owls aresomewhat more stationary, though they migrate tosome extent, as Is shown by the appearance of thesnowy and other boreal owls. This class of birds may be hard to find and know,yet there is for this very reason a romantic interestattaching to them. To know them well is a mark ofa keen, active, successful practical then will go out in the fo
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