BIRD TALK
ON TO A GOOD THING!
During a discussion on bird life at a recent social gathering in Wellington recently an enthusiast declared that birds communicated with each other in a way unknown to humans. To prove his contention, he attached pieces of lamb * fat to a string, which he fastened to trees in his garden. Presently a blackbird arrived on the scene and sampled the fare, and immediately made off. Within a few minutes a flock of thirty birds made their appearance. Messengers were continually leaving the garden, and within a space of half an hour hundreds of birds were pecking at the fat—and they cleared a patch of ground which had been sown with vegetable seeds.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11653, 18 October 1923, Page 4
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119BIRD TALK New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11653, 18 October 1923, Page 4
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