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Birds Capturing Butterflies

Nature volume 61, page 152 (1899)Cite this article

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REFERRING to the letters on this subject in your papers of September 28 and November 16, I can certify to the fact of robins chasing and catching large white butterflies on the wing and swallowing them whole. In June we had ten robins coming freely to the hand for food, and thus had frequent opportunities of observing them daily. My gardener and his son have witnessed the same habit of the robins.

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FOX, H. Birds Capturing Butterflies. Nature 61, 152 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061152b0

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