...Theyare very rapacious birds and live to a great extent,especially during the breeding season, upon the eggs and young of otherbirds such as Ducks, Murres and smaller Gulls...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Like the Great Horned Owls, they are very strong, fearless, and rapacious birds,feeding upon hares, squirrels and smaller mammals, as well as Grouse, Ptarmigan,etc...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...This little fellow was only twelve feet in length, andwas probably unable to avoid occasionally furnishinga meal for some of the rapacious fishes whichabounded in the same ocean...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...But the sea is not without its dangers, for the rapacious Black-backedGull frequently attacks them, and, but for the self-devotionand bravery of the mother bird, would commit great havoc amongthem...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...So far howeveras the farmer is concerned, this is probablybalanced by the reflection that a singleyoung cuckoo is so rapacious as to need allthe insect food available...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...Some Common Game, Aquatic and Rapacious Birds (McAtee and Beal), pages27-28...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...Stealing along in the dark of evening, the cunning and rapacious Fox(Canis Vulpes) leaves his hole in the earth, and roams in search of hisprey...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...Had these little wolves been asnumerous as they were rapacious, there would soon have been left nolife at all in the pool but theirs and that of the frogs...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
... This rapacious bird is very common in Greece, where he does not usually live on large prey...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...Larks, a feeble race of birds, rise higher in the air than any rapacious bird, and this is often a cause of safety...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...One is tempted to believe that the male desires by this method to guarantee his female and her offspring against the attacks of squirrels or rapacious birds...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...Mahel was thislady’s youngest brother, of whom Camden records that “thejudgment of God overtook him for his rapacious ways, inhumane cruelties,and boundless avarice, always usurping other men’s rights...
H. G. Nicholls 「The Forest of Dean」
..., and as long as he lived did much to moderatethat monarch’s rapacious attacks on the wealth of the Church...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
...But still the rapacious U-boat commander was unsatisfied, though Professor Stevens began to have doubts if his craft could lift that massive weight of plunder to the top of the plateau...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931」
...Below them they saw the swiftly receding mass: the fleet of the Llottadiving headlong, drawn inexorably into the rapacious embrace of thevile creature of the heavens...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930」
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