prov:value
| - At one time the food of rooks consisted almost entirely of grain, grubs, worms, and other insects, and many of these insects being injurious to crops, the rooks were most useful to farmers, any loss from the grain eaten being repaid by the destruction of hosts of noxious insects; but now they devour flesh, eggs of game, &c., as badly as the corbie, and the consequence is that gamekeepers - who for
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