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LITTLE OWL ACQUITTED IN ENGLAND. A wordy warfare has been carried on in England for. years as to whether the little owl was a destructive rascal, or a relatively harmless and charming fellow. After a painstaking inquiry, the British Trust for Ornithology has found him “not guilty” of the villainous acts ascribed to him. Gamekeepers and sportsmen have treated the little owl as vermin, accusing him of eating birds’ eggs and young. Others said he ate chickens and preyed on song-birds. But the inquiry, which was carried out over 36 counties in Great Britain, disposed of all the accusations which classed the little owl as a destroyer by nature. He should, apparently, be classed as “useful” rather than "harmful," in that his general diet consists of rats, mice, and several kinds of insects which are labelled by the agriculturists as “pests.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 9
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143NOT GUILTY Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 9
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