BACHELOR BIRDS.
CONCLAVES AND FIGHTS. (sr cable—piiiss association —copyright.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received February Bth, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 7. Miss Turner, lecturing before the Camera Club after spending seven months' lonely vigil ou an island set apart as a bird Banctnary, advanced tho theory that bachelor birds congregated together. She discovered that all tho male oyster catchers who had not paired during the mating season went and occupied a separate soction of the island, and never allowed female birds there. They held prolonged conclaves, which often resulted in free fights.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18302, 9 February 1925, Page 9
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