SCARING THE BIRDS
One of the war correspondents has noted the complete absence of birds from the battlefields of Northern France and the consequent profusion of spiders and other cognate crawling things. Birds always desert scenes of heavy gunfire ; and, what is more, they often do not return for many years. All birds left the theatre of war in South Africa, and it is only now — 14 years later— that they are returning. Meanwhile South Africa has suffered from a vexatious plague of ground-insecls. It is not supposed that the African birds left the country, but that they merely retired to some remote and peaceful part of the veldt.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 10
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109SCARING THE BIRDS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 10
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