Merlins regularly prey on exhausted warblers approaching shore (low over the
water) after a night of transoceanic migration.
Bill E
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Several years ago there was an article in an Ontario journal about
merlin prey in a Toronto neighborhood. It was a study undertaken by a
high school student. Her findings were disturbing: the merlin was
depleting the neighborhood of song birds such as rose-breasted grosbeaks
and cardinals. It
