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Identifier: diseasesenemieso00pearrich (find matches)
Title: Diseases and enemies of poultry
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pearson, Leonard, 1868-1909 Warren, Benjamin Harry, 1858-1926
Subjects: Poultry Diseases Mammals Birds
Publisher: (Harrisburg, Pa.) : C.M. Busch
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s fish for himself by pur-suing them in the shallows of small creeks. I have witnessedseveral instances of this in the Perkiomen creek, in Pennsyl-vania, where, in this manner, I saw one of them secure anumber of red fins by wading briskly through the water andstriking at them with his bill. T have also observed a pairscrambling over the ice of a frozen pond to get at some fishbelow, but without success. It does not confine itself to thesekinds of food, but greedily devours young pigs, lambs, fawns,poultry and the putrid flesh of carcasses of every description,driving off the ^ultures and carrion crows or the do^s, andkeeping a whole party at defiance until it is satiated. KII>LS LAMBS .AND PIGS, Dr. Fisher publishes the following notes from theForest and Stream concerning the destruction of domestic animals: A number of eagles have recently been shot In variousparts of Pennsylvania. One, shot by John Hodman in North Coveiitiy, Chester county, had rniiled off limlily a larg«- lamb
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BALD EAGLE.(YOUNG) 203 and returned the following day, after another. (Vol. V. 1876, p.195.) A large White-headed Eagle swooped down on a flockof sheep here (Hornellsville, New York) and made a break-fast on lamb chops before he could be driven off. (Vol. X,1878, p. 319.) It (the Bald Eagle) was killed by a Mr. Towry,near Smithville, Mississippi. When found by Mr. Towry ithad killed two of his hogs and was dining on one of them.(Vol. VIII, 1877.) Dr. Fisher also refers to an article published in theForest and Stream (Vol. IV, 1875, p. 166) in which aBald Eagle was seen to fly five miles with a live lambin its talons. HOW THEY CAPTURE GEESE. Dr. Fisher reproduces from Bulletin of the NuttallOrnith. Club, the following very interesting note fromMr. Wm, Brewster, and which refers to the mannerin which the Eagles catch wild-fowl in the vicinity ofOobbs Island, Virginia: In the winter the eagles are much more numerous than atany other time of the year, and my informant has, on sev-eral occ

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