The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
many birds of prey living near to one 
another would soon make the smaller 
and weaker birds either too scarce, or 
else too timid, so that it would be 
difficult for them all to live. So as soon 
as young eagles or hawks, or any of this 
class of birds, are able to look after them- 
selves and procure their own food, they 
are bundled out into the world to get 
their own living, and to find a fresh 
place for themselves, where they will not 
interfere with the living of other and 
older birds. 
Some of the bigger gulls are almost 
as dangerous neighbours as the pere- 
grines. In some respects they are 
worse, for the peregrines only kill fairly 
in the open by means of their greater 
speed and strength. But the larger gulls 
have a bad habit of going bird-nesting 
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