FLIGHT FROM WAR.
BIRDS SEEK SAFETY.
LONDON, Sept. 4. Since the aerial war over England began tens of thousands of birds have flown to quieter and safer places, and in some south-east towns small birds, even the cheeky sparrows, are seldom seen.
One result has been the worst caterpillar plague in years in the southeast, where allotment-holders who have been “digging for victory” arc finding they have lost heavily. A bird watcher who lives at Dover reports that gulls there begin to scream minutes before, an air-raid alarm sounds. Another watcher on the southeast coast says that the gulls fly out to sea some time before an alarm is heard, and do not return until the all clear signal. People living near the Regent’s Park Zoo say that at night they hear the geese start an angry cackling before the sirens sound.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 248, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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142FLIGHT FROM WAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 248, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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