The height at which birds fly, even in the finest weather, is apt to be grossly exaggerated. People commonly; | talk of seeing them "miles high," ob« livious of the fact that their normal vision wonld never at such a range in» elude birds. One airman encountered an eagle at the prodigious height of nearly two miles (more exactly 3280 yards), and he found storks and ai buzzard at something under 1000 yard%
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 3
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