The Marsh Hawk is unquestionably one of the most beneficial as it is one of our most abundant Hawks, and its presence and increase should be encouraged in every way possible, not only by protecting it by law, but by disseminating a knowledge of the benefits... Bulletin - Էջ 311893Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| United States. Department of Agriculture - 1889 - 668 էջ
...regardless or ignorant of the fact that it proserves an immense quantity of grain, thousands of frait trees, and innumerable nests of game birds by destroying...protection even if it destroyed no other injurious animals. COMMON SCHEUCH OWL. Megascope asió. By Dr. AK FISHER. The little Screech Owls are distributed over... | |
| WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT - 1889 - 654 էջ
...these hawks which simply passed over at a considerable height, and made no movement to molest them. The Marsh Hawk is unquestionably one of the most beneficial...protection even if it destroyed no other injurious animals. COMMON SCREECH OWL. Megascops asio. By Dr. AK FISHER. In winter many have noticed the tracks of mice... | |
| Charles Anthony Shriner - 1896 - 288 էջ
...grain, girdle the trees and devour the eggs and the young of birds. The Marsh Hawk is unquestionably the most beneficial as it is one of our most abundant...even if it destroyed no other injurious animals." ffwirfc, Pigeon. — Length, ten inches; above, bluish slate color, each feather with a black shaft... | |
| Florence Merriam Bailey - 1898 - 530 էջ
...unquestionably one of the most beneficial, as it is one of our most abundant Hasvks," the doctor states, " and its presence and increase should be encouraged...even if it destroyed no other injurious animals." Although the Marsh Hawk is usually seen flying low over the ground, in the spring he imitates the Nighthawk,... | |
| Florence Merriam Bailey - 1898 - 530 էջ
...unquestionably one of the most beneficial, as it is one of our most abundant Hawks." the doctor states, " and its presence and increase should be encouraged...even if it destroyed no other injurious animals." Although the Marsh Hawk is usually seen flying low over the ground, in the spring he imitates the Nighthawk,... | |
| California. Department of Agriculture - 1911 - 1014 էջ
...from Dr. AK Fisher of the US Biological Survey, serves to show the economic value of the marsh hawk: "It is probably the most active and determined foe...greater numbers of these pests than any other species. • • • It preserves an immense quantity of grain, thousands of fruit trees, and innumerable nests... | |
| United States. Bureau of Biological Survey, Arthur Holmes Howell - 1924 - 404 էջ
...and other rodents, grasshoppers and other insects, frogs, lizards, and snakes. Dr. Fisher says that it is probably the most active and determined foe...squirrels, destroying greater numbers of these pests thaii any other species.f It occasionally captures poultry and small birds, chiefly the ground-dwelling... | |
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