The nest of this species is generally fixed on a very large and lofty tree, often in a swamp or morass, and difficult to be ascended. On some noted tree of this description, often a pine or cypress, the bald eagle builds, year after year, for a long series... Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds - Page 157by George Montagu - 1831 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...Vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks it fiercely in air; the cowardly Vulture instantly disgorges, and the delicious contents are snatched up by the Eagle... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...up by the eagle before they reach the ground. The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated to long fasting, is of the most voracious and often the... | |
| Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...food appears to be scarce, should he [the Bald Eagle] accidentally meet with one of these [Vultures], who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...snatched up by the Eagle before they reach the ground." In fact it would appear that simple rapine, unless accompanied by the spoliation of another, is insufficient... | |
| 1831 - 472 pages
...vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...disgorges, and the delicious contents are snatched up by tlie eagle before they reach the ground. The nest of this species is generally fixed on a very large... | |
| Natural history - 1831 - 420 pages
...vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...ascended. On some noted tree of this description, often a pine or cypress, the bald eagle builds, year after year, for a long series of years. When both... | |
| Alexander Wilson - Birds - 1832 - 472 pages
...Vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...tree, often in a swamp or morass, and difficult to In' ascended. On some noted tree of this description, often a pine or cypress, the Bald Eagle builds,... | |
| 1838 - 944 pages
...vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...ascended. On some noted tree of this description, often a pine, or cypress, the bald eagle builds, year after year, for a long scries of years. When... | |
| 1839 - 274 pages
...hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of those who has his craw crammed with carrion, he attacks it fiercely...snatched up by the Eagle before they reach the ground. No bird provides more abundantly for its young than the Bald Eagle. Fish are daily carried to its nest... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 pages
...vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he accidently meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks...ascended. On some noted tree of this description, often a pine or cypress, the bald-eagle builds, year after year, for a long series of years. When both... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 pages
...In hard times, when feed happens to be scarce, should he accidentally meet with one of these which has its craw crammed with carrion, he attacks it fiercely...up by the eagle before they reach the ground. " The flight of the bald eagle, when taken into consideration with the ardor and energy of his character,... | |
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