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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1915alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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n, or flying withmeasured wing beat over prairies and sparsely wooden areas on thelookout for its favorite prey, causes it to be noticed by the mostindifferent observer. Although not an omnivorous as the red-shoul-dered hawk, it feeds on a variety of food, as small mammals, snakes,frogs, insects, birds, crawfish, centipedes and even carrion. Inregions where rattlesnakes abound it destroys considerable numbersof the reptiles. Although it feeds to a certain extent on poultryand birds, it is nevertheless entitled to general protection on accountof the insistent warfare it wages against field mice and other smallrodents and insects that are so destructive to young orchards, nurs-ery stock and farm produce. Out of 530 stomachs examined, 457,or 85 per cent, contained the remains of mammal pests, such as fieldmice, pine mice, rabbits, several species of ground squirrels, pocketgophers and cotton rats, and only 62 contained the remains of poul-try or game birds. —Biological Survey Bulletin.
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RED-TAILED HAWK. )A, Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CMIC*QO Alabama, 1915. 15 HAWKS CHALLENGE WINTER or Summer, what care I?—The tilled or the untilled plain ?My lot is cast in the blue abyss, And the lordly suns domain.Over the broad champaign I float, And over the sparkling sea;I mount at will to the peak of heaven, And rejoice that I am free, Ko, keeo, kilio, keeo! I exult that I am free! KO, kileo, ye groundlings born, Of the tribes that reap and sow,—Blesing and ban to me are one, As up and aloft I go!There are quaking hearts below, I ween, For this black shape in the sky;For the Hawks breed has a Hawks blood, And a Hawk of the Hawks am I. Ko, keeo, kileo, keeo! A Hawk of the Hawks am I! —Dora Read Goodale. *C^ A THE HAWK LIFE at every meal, rapacious hawk!Spare helpless innocence! —Troth, pleasant talk!Yon swallow snaps more lives up in a dayThan in a twelvemonth I could take away.But hark, most gentle censor, in your ear,A word, a whisper,—you,—are you

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