Hawks and Owls of Eastern North America
Donald S. Heintzelman. ACCIPITERS ACCIPITERS ACCIPITERS ACCIPITERS ACCIPITERS SOARING HAWKS SOARING HAWKS SOARING HAWKS. glide , with the wing beats somewhat slower than those used by Sharp - shinned Hawks but more rapid than those ...
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830
... Hawks Jr. ( 1730-1810 ) was the eldest child - one of twelve - of William Hawks ( 1708 / 1709-1755 ) and his wife , Jane England , and was born in Gateshead , being baptised there on 29 June 1730. He served an apprenticeship as a ...
Birds of Peru
... HAWKS , AND 36 BLACK - COLLARED HAWK The two species of black - hawks are large blackish hawks of the lowlands . Solitary Eagle superficially is very similar , especially to Great Black - Hawk , but primarily occurs at higher elevations ...
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial
... Hawks , the immigrant HAWKS ancestor , was born in England , and came from there with his brother Adam in Winthrop's fleet , 1630 , and settled in Windsor , Connecticut , as early as 1640. His name was at first spelled Hakes , and once ...
“The” Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture
... hawks just mentioned , are harmless to poultry , and feed largely upon reptiles , insects , and snails . The second ... hawks . It includes the following : Marsh Hawk , Harris ' Buzzard , Red - tailed , Hawk , Red - shouldered Hawk ...
Full Court
Full Court tells story of an often-forgotten but remarkable time in St. Louis sports history--the era of the NBA's St. Louis Hawks.
Hawk Ridge
... Hawk ! " If the bird is indeed a Swainson's Hawk , the hawk watchers ' joy will be palpable . Swainson's Hawks breed throughout the Great Plains and beyond , in open grasslands and sparse scrub- lands of the American West . They eat ...
Hawk Rising
Maria Gianferrari. RED - TAILED HAWK FACTS The Rap on Raptors Red - tailed hawks are North America's most common hawk . Hawks and other birds of prey are known as raptors . As is often the case with raptors , female red - tailed hawks ...
North American Falconry and Hunting Hawks
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Status of the Red-shouldered Hawk in the Northcentral United States
... hawks were found in a cornfield that had been treated the previous day with Furadan 10 ( 10 % carbofuran , a ... hawks and other species have been reported . In winter , red - shouldered hawks took fish heads from crows ( Corvus ...
Red-Tailed Hawks
Red-tailed hawks are popular raptors found all across North America. Big, bold photos accompany carefully-leveled text on habitat, behavior, life cycle, and threats to this iconic bird of prey.
Neighborhood Hawks
After reading J. A. Baker’s fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
A Monograph of the Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo Platypterus)
... Hawks were obtained . H. S. Hathaway writes me that quite a few are shot for the bounty offered by the state during ... hawks , and I was again fortunate enough to witness it . There was little wind at first , and the hawks did not ...
The Quarterly Review
... hawks subsequently played an im- portant part as a substitute for the coin of the realm . Then , ' he says , ' the tenants of knights ' fees answered to their lords by military services , and the tenants of socage lands and demesnes in ...
Forest and Stream
... HAWKS , IN NEST IN COTTONWOOD , MAY 24 . SPARROW HAWK FEEDING ON TOP OF FENCE POST . Photo. The Value of Birds of Prey . BY WILLIAM L. FINLEY . With Photographs from Life by Herman T. Bohlman . Red - tailed Hawk - Sparrow Hawk - Golden ...
Annual Report of the U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station of Wyoming
... hawks , the daily catch would be 40,000 grasshoppers . At this rate these hawks would de- stroy 280,000 grasshoppers in a week and 1,200,000 in a month . I have no means of knowing how long the hawks remained in the neighborhood of ...
Annual Report
... hawks near Cape May Point . Upon investigation it appeared that these hawks were killed during their migrations southward and following song birds . The birds were almost exclusively sharp shinned hawks . In one string of 74 hawks , 73 ...
Chambers's Encyclopaedia
... hawks are pelt . Stooping or swooping is the act of descending anhooded and ' cast off , ' and the chase commences . | with closed wings from a height at prey . Diret FALEME - FALKIRK . flight , without soaring , is. an unsuccessful ...