Lanterna Rally

Author: Harry C. Oberholser

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780282901653

Excerpt from The North American Eagles and Their Economic Relations Eagles are flesh eaters, and since they consume large quantities of whatever animal food is most accessible they become at times an economic factor of some importance, though whether beneficial or injurious in a given region is not always easy to say. In places overrun by the smaller noxious mammals they frequently perform valuable service by thinning the ranks of such pests, and the fond ness of some species for carrion is an added source of benefit to man. But if, perchance, they do render us. Some good deeds, they offset these by wholesale destruction of waterfowl and game birds and by raids upon the sheepfold, the goat pasture, the cattle pen, and the poultry yard. Thus a just verdict must pronounce them not far from neutral in economic influence. Where and when they are doing good they ought to be carefully protected; if at any time or place they become harmful, means should be taken to obviate the damage they cause; but it would be unnecessary and unwise to declare against all eagles a general war of extermination, since neutral spe cies always bear an important part in the balance of nature, an equilibrium that man should hesitate to disturb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.