HOW HIGH DABIRDE FIRE

Otaki Mail, 9 October 1922, Page 2

HOW HIGH DABIRDE FIRE

<r So',llo birds. such ns lurk . fl-, j hunting?-, starlings, am! tlt rush e>, ;V ! *ll flocks from one j>oin! of t In- com situ another in their partial migration-, j aml one sometimes sees a gu-at tree;,.I crossing (he sen no Itigher .-(!•••»,■ : I level o 1 (lie u nler than the- i music "1 ■'* ship, ami looking like a eh>ud ! smoke. j But this is not the way with the no ! jority of migratory birds; nms ~f ; Inert! fly fairly high. liven u ihi g,-, ... h hose flying phalanx wo see so plain 1 -.. ! anil hear as w .-11. go northward at a ''ome nstioaomors liavo seen let--. anight 1-rossing hot ween tlioii tel | nntl the moon's disc, ami have <■-- I tiittit | *‘ ! l their elevation at nearlv two i :l j|e Ihe host oliservn t ions in tie- a-- ■ have pointed to the eunelnsion tier; e : is very tin us tin I for lords to laigrni, ;| > | alt it tales greater than ."..in in fee'. ; , 'hat they ternl to keep below |h- ! ■ e,. i est ohinds. i' "Of oh V i I'll - why they j s <.-ek to go higher, info levels wlcre it i '- s »■ <>l <!<• r ami where it is more do' ;-'' j to breathe. Some new evidence has been submit fed by f.'nlomd K. M I'imtl l/ll:,.;e! . IhS.t)., as to the altitude of migrator.- : fl.-ght. !b- obtained intieli jtilnniiaitu;; ! from pilots of aircraft. { ° n "tie occasion, when lie wa- 1 a. , ''lt A.' lag over the somhem -lope m j Kilimanjaro, in least Africa, he countered a huge, seatl,-red flock m ] I lesser kestrels am! I trfers uial, : (heir way north u.fhittft. above He. Slopes of the hills. 'J he most striking general result m observations both ia the air and fms I tile ground j s that flight at anything [ like u.Hbiift. is very nmisunl, and that I the bulk of migratory birds fly be!o"' 1 A."""ft. by tiny and by night. ’ ; rhere iirr high fliers, like lap-vim. i get 'sc. ci'iiiie., and rook'-, and there m- . i low liters, like swallow, ami wagi-'d , - j but when the weather i. bmi. , p. ’-- ,}:■■ j n lien it i- cloudy. all birds tie low.