GOLF CLUBS AS BIRD SANCTUARIES 

 SOME GOLF COURSE BIRDS 



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ALMOST MADE AN EAGLE 



Photo by D. Beyea 



The little Sparrow Hawk is a picturesque bird and adds greatly to the 

 landscape when on quivering wings he hovers for moments at a time over one 

 spot on the green waiting for a grasshopper to move, or a mouse to run before 

 he pounces upon it. The Sparrow Hawk is the smallest of the North American 

 Falcons and first cousin to the Eagle. 



Photos by A. A. Allen 

 A DIFFICULT HOLE 



This shows a Sparrow Hawk at its nesting site and one of its young. 

 Occasionally the Sparrow Hawk takes small birds, but its main food is insects 

 and small mammals. Of 410 stomachs examined by the U. S. Biological Survey 

 314 contained insects, 129 small mammals and 70 small birds. They nest in 

 holes in trees and have been known to use bird-boxes placed high in dead trees. 



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