USEFUL SCAVENGERS
4 Ou learning that acclimatization societies in New Zealand bad put a price on hawks lo encourage their destruction. :r visiting English naturalist said that possibly sheepfariners would live to regret the extermination of hawks. New Zealand appeared to be poor, he reinat'ked, in scavengers, of which the hawks were the most important, cleaning up carcasses which otherwise formed the breeding-plffce of blowflies. After doing their best to exterminate carrion crows, which sometimes attacked the eyes of newborn lambs, the shepherds on the English moors noticed a big increase in the number of sheep that were llv-blown, the flies having bred in carcasses which, iu the absence of scavengers, were left to decay. After that lesson in the intricacies of the balance of Nature, the shepherds now tolerated the carrion crows.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 160, 1 April 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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