Dietary biology of the Eurasian eagle-owl but none are heavier than the largest mammalian prey that eagle-owls have taken including greater white-fronted goose ("Anser albifrons"), bar-headed goose ("Anser indicus"), great cormorant ("Phalacrocorax carbo"), Himalayan snowcock ("Tetraogallus himalayensis") and demoiselle crane ("Anthropoides virgo"), all averaging around , the swan goose ("Anser cygnoides"), the common crane ("Grus grus") and the (between the dimorphic sexes) great bustard ("Otis tarda"). Eurasian eagle-owls have also hunted adult male western capercaillie, which average about , although usually the much smaller females, at , are more regularly taken. Although they rarely take domestic birds, the range of sizes killed is just as dramatic,
Little Birds 'little birds' of the title story refer both to the actual birds used by its exhibitionist protagonist to attract young schoolgirls to his attic, and (metaphorically) to the girls' flight when he finally exposes himself. In other stories, Nin calls into question the objectifying tendencies of the male gaze; both male and female complicity in masochism; and the pornographic genre itself through her subtle subversion. While writing her erotica, and organising that of her fellow writers such as George Barker, Nin referred to herself jokingly as the "madam of this snobbish literary house of prostitution" for a client who examined