English:
"A hawk isn't particular, it will pull down a pheasant, partridge, rabbit or chicken, just whichever comes first, in fact they are especially fond of raiding the poultry yard."

Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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iLWVK ATTACKING PARTRIDGES MEN, ANIMAL AND BIRD POACHERS on the top of a fence, or a dead limb of a tree, where they can see all aroundthem. Crows have this same habit too. Now the larger hawks are rare in England, except the Kestrel andSparrow hawks, nevertheless the few there are do a deal of damage. A hawkisnt particular, it will pall down a pheasant, partridge, rabbit or chicken, just
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whichever comes first, in fact they are especially fond of raldmg the poultryyard. The game keepers know that the hawks seldom take the trouble tobuild a nest themselves but take possession of an abandoned magpie orcrows nest When the Httle hawks are born they become very noisy andsoon betray the place of the nest. The game keeper then sends a couple ofbarrels of shot through the nest and puts the entire family out of commission.Crows do their share of zgg stealing and killing of little chicks, andoften in severe weather find half frozen bunnies and soon kill them, but

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