Identifier: friendsfoesofwil00abbo (find matches)
Title: Friends and foes of wild life. A discussion of certain predacious birds and animals from the standpoint of the sportsman, trapper and farmer
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Abbott, Clinton Gilbert, 1881-1946. (from old catalog) New York (State). Conservation commission. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology, Economic. (from old catalog) Birds of prey. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Albany (J.B. Lyon company, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d liawk. The marsh hawks record is not (piite so clean. This is the familiar long-winged hawk, which is so often seen sailing low over meadow and marsh. In some plumages it is gray, in others brown, but it is always easily distinguishable by the conspicuous white patch upon the iMunp. It beats tirelessly over the ground and occasionally pounces suddeidy down upon some luckless meadow mouse or other creature hiding in the grass below. The luarsh hawk does fai- more good than harm, as may be seen from Dr. Fishers statement: Of 21 stomachs examined, 7 contained poultry, or game birds; SI. other birds; .)7, mice; ■2-2, other mammals ;7, reptiles; 2, frogs; 14, insects; 1. indeterminate matter; and 8 wereem))ty. I. RED-TAILED HAWK Adult First year 2. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK Adult First year 3. BROAD-WINGED HAWKA dult First year 5. SPARROW HAWK MaleFemale 4. MARSH HAWK Adult male (chased by red-winged blackbird) Female or immature HAWKS THAT AID CONSERVATION XWAH l/:0(TA:/P.3mOD aiA TAHT e>!WAH
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THE WHITE LIST Friends and Foes of Wild Life 15 Last and least, l)ut commonest of all in the White List group,is the handsome little sparrow hawk, so often seen standing on a telegraph pole or dead tree l>y the roadside, or else hovering, as though suspended in mid-air, i)reparatory to dropping ui)on its diminutive prey. Were it not for its occasional weakness for very young chickens in the spring-time, the sparrow hawk might receive a clean bill of health. But surely we must agree that at other seasons of the year it more than makes reparation for any possible misbehaviour in the poultry yard, when we read the official analysis of .J-iO stomachs, wherein 1 contained a game bird; .>;>, other l)irds;89, mice; l-2, other mannnals; VI, reptiles or batrachians; ^lo,insects; 29, spiders; and 29 were empty. (Grasshoppers, crickets and beetles form its principal food during the warm months, while mice predominate during the rest of the year. In his Hawks and Owls from the Stand point

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