Seagulls Know Their Aircraft
. SYDNEY, Jan. 10. Flight engineers at. Rose Bay elaim that seagulls inhabiting the beach near the Sydney flying-boat terminal can distinguish between Trans-Tasman planes and others, though there is littie visible difference between the Hythe flying-boat on the England run and the Sandringham flying-boat used acroSvS the Tasman. The engineers believe that the seagulls can tell the Approach of a flyingboat long before it appears over the bay. When the Tasman plane arrives the seagulls take off to meet it at the heads and ^escort it to its moorings. Olier flying-.boats are ignored, The reason, according to the . engineers, is that the Tasman planes are the only ones from which seraps of food are thrown after the flight. A remarkable thing is that sudden changes in schedule do not confuse the birds.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 January 1949, Page 5
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