A REMARKABLE BIRD COLONY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 April 1914, Page 3

A REMARKABLE BIRD COLONY.

The most remarkable bird colony in the world is on Hat Island, in the Great Salt Lake, Utah. The island is about twelve acres in extent, and on a rocky pinnacle a hundred feet above the brine, with not a drdp of fresh water is to be found, and, where there is nothing to excite the cupidity or commercial instinct of man, the birds—gulls, pelicans, herons, and cormorants by the thousands—make their home. The island can be seen at a disof ten miles, rising like a " cocked hat " out of the sapphire of the inland seaThe birds are utterly fearless. Protected as they are by the laws of the State, they have had little cause to fear man and his death-dealing weapons. It is necessary to use the greatest care to ■ avoid stepping on the nests and eggs of the tens of thousands of sea-fowl that have established their rockeries on the ! islet.