The havoc they commit is astonishing...." -- Alex.

Henry, jun.] The air at this season is full of great birds--eagles, buzzards, hawks, and falcons--soaring in circles to look out for prey among the flocks of wild swans, white geese, bernicle geese and brent geese, duck and teal, which cover the backwaters and the marshes and shallow lagoons.

Turkey buzzards, coming up from the south, act as scavengers during the summer months.

Immense flocks of passenger pigeons, buntings, grosbeaks, attack the ripening fruits and the wild rice of the swamps.

Grouse in uncountable numbers inhabit the drier tablelands and open moors.[7] [Footnote 7: Nowhere in the world are there so many kinds of grouse as in North America.