Show species of hawks that are friends of farmer fanner the saying the only good hawk Is a dead hawk has bp apon a proven false by modern biological stud studies les some hawks of course prey at times on poultry and valuable game birds many however live eve mainly on rodents insects and other destructive forms ot of wild life it la is not easy to distinguish between the harmful and harmless species of hawks that in itself being good reason for erring cr rine it at all on oa the side of protection in general say biologists of the united states state department ot of agriculture harmless han hawks L s have broad wings and wide fan shaped tails and the harmful ones have hare relatively long tails and rounded wings study of the appearance pe arance and habits of the hawks in any section should enable farmers and sportsmen to tell which are likely to visit the chicken yard and which will confine themselves largely to feeding on injurious animals and thus be useful |