Subject: Re: grasshoppers as food
Date: May 26 15:14:54 1997
From: "William H. Lawrence" - whl at localaccess.com


At 10:09 PM 5/25/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Jack Bowling writes:
>>
>>Many birds eat grasshoppers if they can find them. Among the families I have
>>seen eating them: falconids, shorebirds, larids, flycatchers, corvids,
>>turdids, etc., etc. The fact that they are high in protein also means they
>>are a good form of sustenance. Bonus.
>

>-----Herb Curl
>>

>Surely tweeters must know of the "gulls" that ate the grasshoppers & saveD
the crops planted by Mormons in UT.

I fed a kestrel on junebugs when they were emerging from the field grass
much to his delight---WHL