air-robbers

Updated: July 25, 2025

Besides the common brown eagle, three kinds of vulture, several species of falcons, hawks, and owls, the raven family appears to be fully represented, with the exception of the jackdaw, which possibly finds itself too weak and too slow of flight to live in the midst of such strong and ferocious air-robbers as those which have established themselves in these grand solitudes.

Edward Harrison Barker - Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine