BIRD NOISES IN FENDALTON
Wax-Eves Thought Responsible
The high, shrill cheeoing of a myriad of small birds in Fendaltion about 8 p.m. yesterday, which had been heard by many residents in the area, probably had come from a migration of wax-eyes, said the assistant director of the Canterbury Museum (Mr E G. Turbott) last evening. Mr Turbott said the same query had been raised a few weeks ago when he had been out of Christchurch at that time. He had thought it .might have been a migration of godwits or waders. Ornithologists, who were familiar with the habits and noises of birds, had told him. however, that it was a migrating flock of wax-eyes which had caused the noise at that time.
Wax-eyes made local migrations within New Zealand about this time of the ve—. he said. As yet not much was known of the extent of the migrations for the birds never left one district entirely.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 17
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