TALK ON BIRDS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30235, 13 September 1963, Page 15

TALK ON BIRDS

Parents Urged To Interest Children

He could still remember the thrill when as a child he looked at a bird through a binocular and felt he could touch it, said Mr G. Guy when, at a meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society last evening, he urged "those who take children out to make sure that they see what you see." Mr Guy, principal of the Christchurch Teachers’ College and an authority on birds, was addressing the branch on birds of New Zealand and other lands. Mr Guy said that he thought there was more interest in bird® than other creatures “because, perhaps, birds are so much like us.” Although some birds were vicious they had wonderful instincts of motherhood and of helping others in groups. They showed signs of integration, segregation, and other human traits.

“In a rapidly changing world just what are the things that are going to keep us sane?” asked Mr Guy. He said he thought that what was needed was an appreciation of permanent things. Many got a sense of belonging. he said, from a study of nature.

Mr Guy showed coloured slides of birds on the Estuary, which he said was unique with the Pacific Ocean on one side and a sheltered water on the other. He hoped that changes in the area did not affect the wildlife.