Show HAVING an APPETITE Like a BIRD HEN you hear anyone say he has a birdlike birdlike bird W WHEN like appetite you naturally think of ot him himas as a light cater But how many i persons would like to cat eat as many as times a day Many 1 birds do so and more according according- to orni orni- Birds live busy lives putting man utter utterly Y to shame by their diligence though few realize this There are birds who spend the entire day working working work work- ing for a living Some pass the time in eating without any cessation food being provided If It it is a days day's work for a bird to feed itself what must its lab labors rs be when there arc are from rom five to ten hungry mouths at home to provide for One lover bird-lover tells how he timed a pair of martins bringing in il food for their young and found they paid sometimes 10 sometimes 24 visits with food in an hour and a pair of swifts brought in food to the family 40 times in an hour If kept up this would mean serving over meals in the birds bird's day of or 16 hours hoars In contrast were the meals served by a pair of thrushes missel-thrushes who gave their nestlings only 70 meals in a day Two white owls were noted to pay 12 visits to their nests with mice in 20 minutes It was reckoned reckoned reckoned reck reck- they carried home about 40 mice in an hour A good record of work was set up by a golden- golden crested wren Only the mother bird fed ted the eight youngsters young in the nest Her average through 16 hours was 36 meals served an hour If she distributed the food fairly each youngster youngster youngster young young- ster received 72 meals a day The total number served by this one midget bird was But a pair of beat even en this fine record They were kept under observation by a naturalist photographer who found the they fed their five well grown chicks at rates varying from 36 times an hour to the extraordinary maximum of 60 The food served was moths flies small beetles and caterpillars These insects while still alive olive handed to the were over 01 nestlings ent t ni cr r Service 1020 |