. Roosevelts Afrikareise; die Geschichte seines Lebens, die Reise von New York nach Mombasa, Und die Route durch das Herz von Afrika, einschließlich der großen Spiel und andere wilde Tiere, fremde Völker und Länder im Laufe seiner Reisen gefunden . der stärkste erlaubt ihm oft die Falken neuesten Beute zu schnappen, oder reißen eine Taube aus den Klauen eines Falken. Im März beginnt der Steinadler seine Werbung.Er baut seinen Astrie auf einem unzugänglichen Felsen oder Felsen in den Bergen oder auf dem obersten Zweig eines Baumes. Die Gründung der Nestis der Zweige, die inneren Wände sind aus Haar, Heide
1937 x 1289 px | 32,8 x 21,8 cm | 12,9 x 8,6 inches | 150dpi
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. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . of the strongest allows himoften to snatch away the hawks latest prey, or tear away a dove fromthe claws of a falcon. In March the golden eagle begins his courting.He builds his eyrie on some unapproachable rock or crag in the moun-tains or on the topmost branch of a tree. The foundation of the nestis of branches, the inner walls are of hair, heather and grass. The (a 7 7) 278 BIRDS OF PREY eggs arc, like those of the buzzard, a whitish ground with brownspecks or dots. The care of these eggs is left entirely to the motherbird. After live weeks the little ones are hatched, and are as homelyas their parents are stately and beautiful. ^ery often only owi Qgg ishatched, but the parent birds give as much love and care to this onelittle descendant as if it were a whole nest full. Sometimes the oldbirds will travel for hours through the air carrying some hare orheathcock or a young heron cai)tured from a distant eyrie. Theanimal is torn to pieces before the ever-hungry young eaglet and the. y-^^.^^ GROUP OF VULTURES best l)its offered him. His nursery on this account docs not present avery inviting a])pearance. Legs of rabbits, skulls of birds, hair, feathers, bones and wool are strewni all about. Sometimes there is avery bright and i)leasing side to this place of skulls; little birds, especially sparrow^s, build their nests between the twigs and branchesof the eyrie and live there quite imdisturbed. With this exception theeagle lives alone; one ])air never permitting anotlier ])air of theirkind within their hunting ground. The fact makes their indulgence BIRDS OF PREY 279 to the little birds seem all the more wonderful. The sparrows seemto know that they are safe from the claws of the eagle, even thoughthey are living in his ey
