MIGRATING BIRDS
INSTINCT OF STORKS. INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. Essen, Sept. 17. Whether the stork acquires an inherited instinct in choosing the route of its flight will be cleared up, it is hoped,'by an experiment now being conducted by German scientists. Young storks, to the number of 150, born this summer in East Prussia, were recently sent by officials'of a famous bird sanctuary at Rossiter, near Memel, to Essen in order to ascertain which route they would take when flying south for the winter.
Storks bom east of the River Elbe fly to Africa, via the Balkans, while storks from West Germany fly via the South of France and Spain.
Ornithologists are much interested to know whether birds born in East Prussia, but released in West Germany, will follow the western route, or whether, by virtue of inherited instinct, they will fly eastward. All the birds flew in a south-easterly direction. They have been specially marked for identification.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 3
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