. Gli uccelli della California : una completa, scientifico e popolare conto del 580 specie e sottospecie di uccelli che si trovano nello stato. Gli uccelli; uccelli. La Western Red-tailed Hawk e hanno bruciato la sua gopher-campi con il fuoco. La cosa peggiore di tutte, questi invasori senza scrupoli, non avendo il loro utilizzo- stessi per sage-ratti, ancora li negano al legittimo proprietario, il Redtail; ed essi lui perseguire ferocemente con motori di distruzione quando egli ventures al campione un importate polli danese. In verità, questi sono tempi troublous per l aristocrazia. Alackaday! La verità per dire, non vi è più stupido ossessione che affligge l'agricoltore f

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. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Red-tailed Hawk and have burnt his gopher-fields with fire. Worst of all, these ruthless invaders, having no use them- selves for sage-rats, yet deny them to their rightful owner, the Redtail; and they pursue him fiercely with engines of destruction when he ventures to sample an imported Danish fowl. Verily, these be troublous times for the aristocracy. Alackaday! Truth to tell, there is no more foolish obsession which afflicts farmer folk than this, —that all Hawks should be killed at sight; unless it be this other, — that all birds caught eating cherries are worthy of death. Penny wise, pound foolish, both of them! The man who is worst injured by this folly is, of course, the farmer himself, but society also suffers through him. Why, it is as if the man should send a charge of buckshot through a boy who stooped to pluck a strawberry—the while he cared nothing that the cattle were ravaging his wheatfield for lack of that same small boy to drive them out. In all seriousness, it is no exaggeration to say that, insofar as the three most easily slaughtered species of Hawks are concerned, the Marsh Hawk, Swainson's and the Redtail, any farmer in the grain-growing sections of this State could well afford to raise a hundred chickens annually and feed them to the birds, if by so doing he could secure immunity from the ravages of rodent pests. Yes; the excess of wheat and barley which the pests destroy annually in root and in blade would feed the chicks and repay the trouble tenfold. The Western Redtail is still, after the American Kestrel (Cerchneis sparverius), the commonest hawk in California. It possesses great adaptability, so that it is able to maintain itself as well upon the Colorado and Mojave deserts as upon the middle slopes of the Sierras and the jutting cliffs of the boundless chaparral country. It r

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1920
• booksubjectbirds
• bookyear1923