HAWKS.
Paul L. Errington, writing in “American Game,” a publication set apart to advocate the interests of sportsmen, says, “What if a Red-tailed Hawk does drive a quail covey into an open corn-shock now and then? The hawk enjoys all the more the meadow mouse that he gets half-an-hour later and the quail are keener birds for the experience. “We don’t want our game to soften in an unnatural atmosphere of man-made security, like chickens in a coop. The birds we want in our coverts are the topnotch northern Bob-white, plump, fit, danger-tempered and — an even break—equal to looking out for themselves. If the desire of the sportsman,
or farmer, or whoever it may be, is to protect his upland game from predators, he can best accomplish this by providing the cover in which the game can seek its own safety, and by providing the food which enables the game to reach that cover when it has to.”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 23, 1 March 1931, Page 14
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158HAWKS. Forest and Bird, Issue 23, 1 March 1931, Page 14
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