BIRD'S ATLANTIC FLIGHT
A colony of lapwings recently made a wonderful flight across the Atlantic from Britain to Newfoundland in twenty-four hours. The lapwing finds its food in the fields and is not a seabird, and therefore could not possibly have been sustained by food picked up by following steamers. The birds probably flew at forty miles per hour in their own speed, and were helped by a gale, which might bring their mileage up to Over • severity. Even then, to fly for twenty-four hours without rest »r food shows amazing endurance and tenacity. One of the birds was found* to have beeja ringed in Cumberland in 1926.
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Shannon News, 12 October 1928, Page 4
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108BIRD'S ATLANTIC FLIGHT Shannon News, 12 October 1928, Page 4
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