Show w t WT f 1 BIRDS TRAVEL ALONG ROUTES all have not same range swallows great D stance the routes by which birds pass to and from one country to another in spring and autumn are regularly fol lowed one great thoroughfare of course is in the spring from south to north and conversely in the autumn from north to south another Is south east to northwest a third southwest to northeast with the return into the same starting points says the scot man the great southern wintering win region is south of the north of africa and extends to tar beyond the equator and from it under the breeding in in spring birds hurry away to disperse themselves over the wide spreading or northern lands which extend as far in the case of some species as a long way within the arctic circle south of the equator during the northern winter the migrants fly toward the south pole to breed the seasonal range limit of some of the northern breeding ards is enormous several extending from patagonia to greenland all migratory birds have not the same range some fly longer some shorter distances the best known of all the birds of passage the low has one of the longest ranges from to miles in this extended range are also included such birds as the gray plover the kaat the pectoral and curlew sandpipers and the asiatic golden plover the longer range from to 7 miles includes such well known birds as the cuckoo the corncrake the sedge warbler the greenshank tl moderate range from 3 to 5 miles embraces the turtle dove the crane lapsing mallard and jac snipe the third ange filin 1000 to 2 miles such ards as the wood chat e the stone curlew the woodcock wood coci and black tern and in what is called the restricted area with a mileage of 1000 miles 3 there are the waxwings several gulls and the eider duck |