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,
Two Little Dickie Birds Two Little Dickie Birds "Two Little Dickie Birds" or "Two Little Black Birds" is an English language nursery rhyme and fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16401. Modern versions of the lyrics include: The rhyme was first recorded when published in "Mother Goose's Melody" in London around 1765. In this version the names of the birds were Jack and Gill: These names seem to have been replaced with the apostles Peter and Paul in the 19th century. In American English, the variant "Two Little Blackbirds" is more common. <poem> Two little blackbirds sitting on a hill.