Show BIRD TRAGEDY starling accidentally collides with and kula a book in midair james carter of masham yorks england reports a happening to the london field the like of which seldom or never was observed before in over 25 volumes of a well known mens newspaper a similar incident has not been reported the field says saya that a starling flying swiftly from ita nest collided with a passing rook and the starlings beak penetrated the head of the rook causin causing g instant death hawks of course often strike their game in midair and kill it but in that case the collision is intentional during the migrating periods birds are often killed and maimed by flying against unseen obstacles at night I 1 as telegraph wires or high waterfalls wa t hfalls rf alls many ducks and geese fly up stream into the niagara falls every year buethe but the like of this incident is not mot recorded |