Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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noticeable when the birdturns ; in a good light its head appears almost white. It hasa clear ringing mee-00, louder than that of our bird ; a game-keeper described it as screaming like a cat. I have seen itat close quarters on the Yorkshire coast, where it was beatinglow over a rabbit-warren and neighbouring fields, workingalong the ditches which divide them. Sometimes it flew fullythirty feet above the ground, but it often passed near me at nomore than six feet elevation ; it frequently hovered almostexactly like a Kestrel, its wings vibrating rapidly, its depressedtail spread, when the white base and sub-terminal bar werevery conspicuous. Statements that the bird formerly nestedin Britain, which have been frequently repeated, are withoutfoundation. Quicker and stronger in flight than the CommonBuzzard this bird prefers larger game ; in England, where itavoids woodlands, it will remain, so long as unmolested, in thevicinity of a rabbit-warren, and has been known to kill leverets .€
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