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Yard pigeons have it rough these days. First it was that owl. Now a large duck hawk has moved into the Memorial Hall tower, and a screech owl lives in Cambridge Common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawk, New Owl Join Yard Birds | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...owls and hawk are probably here for the winter, according to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology. He thinks they decided to stay because of the protection they receive in the city. Games laws allow the big birds to hunt in peace, while the easy food supply also keeps them around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawk, New Owl Join Yard Birds | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...duck hawk is a large and rare falcon. The pigeons will have a tough job trying to escape its speedy dive, for it is one of the fastest birds in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawk, New Owl Join Yard Birds | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...hawk won't bother the owls, Griscom says--at least as long as the pigeons last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawk, New Owl Join Yard Birds | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...officiating of Saturday's contest only aided and abetted the already dubious ethics of the Cadets. One of these hawk-eyed aces, who goes under the improbable name of Phillip E. Genthner, should be spending his Saturday afternoons at home in an easy chair lisetning ever a radio rather than taking the taxpayer's money to act as lineman for the U.S. Army...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

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