THE TRAVELS OF WILD BIRDS
More and more we arc getting to know about the travels of wild birds, but many will be surprised to learn how carefully ornithologists are studying their migrations jJuring the last 16 years a bird lover ST Ecndon carried on a campaign in which 145,000 birds have been marked. A . small aluminium ring is attached to one leg and the bird is then 'released to travel about the world. . During the English winter the swallows go as far afield as the CSpa, and numbers of them marked with rings in England and Scotland have been discovered in South Africa. It has been found that swallows often return thousands of miles to the same caves in England to' nest. ■
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 10
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