MAGPIES AND HAWK
A duel between a harrier hawk and magpies on the Wanganui racecourse was watched by passers-by. The hawk, soaring unperturbed some distance from its native haunts, was suddenly disturbed bv a flurry of wings and a black and "white shape moving outward from a clump of gum trees. Two more similar shapes appeared from the same direction, and a fourth rose from the ground close by.- It was. ail unci ll3 ' contest from the start and the hawk used the powei of hi>- wings to put distance between himself and four ague pursuers, which kept sweeping at lnm as he sailed majestiially away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 10
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106MAGPIES AND HAWK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 10
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