A New Use for Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 23, 20 December 1929, Page 11

A New Use for Radio

ANY mysteries of bird migration which have puzzled scientists for years "may at last be solved with the aid of radio. A beginning with this new method of investigation was made recently by an ornithologist in charge of a bird-banding station in Bast Prussia, Germany. After attaching num‘bered bands to the legs of a number

) 5 of storks, the investigator broadcast 2 request to Huropean bird lovers for information regarding the birds. Soon reports started to come in from members of the radio audience. These showed that, five days after their release, the storks had been seen in the Carpathian mountains in Czecho-Slo-vakia. A couple of weeks later they were observed near Messini, in southwestern Greece, having flown about 1250 miles in that period.