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Show FATAL TO MIGRATING BIRDS Lighthouses Kill Many Thousands, Which the Keepers Dispose of In City Markets. A writer furnishes some striking: figures concerning rhe bsvoc wrought smong; migrating birds by tig light' bouaes. The llKhllioune cm the I'olnt Je IVnmarcb, In Itrlttany, France, has a revolvliiR llsht of SO.ooo.OdO candle power. Visiting; this on November 10 last year, and SKuIn on the twelfth, the observer saw ins of thousands of birds whirling- round, and it seemed lo blrn that the Hunt shot out a ir-fect ir-fect hall of electric sparks amoriR the migrants. Next mornlni; he was present pres-ent while the dead bodies were being collected. They ar dispatched every day to Tarls by train, and the "catch" h was told, oftrn comprised from 2.000 to fOOO victims; one mornlna a!on there had been more than too woodcock In the "ba?" On the two mornings he was present pres-ent there were only a score of woodcock wood-cock the' first day, but on tbe second tire around waa Uttered with from C00 to 1,000 victims, chiefly blackbirds, ducks, woodcock, thrushes and golden plovers. Another offender Is the light-bouse light-bouse on Uelle He, off tbe south coast of Itrlttany. On two dark nights Isst November, wltb an east wind blowing, this light caused the ' death of 1.200 birds. Including curlews, cur-lews, thrushes, snipe, starlings, over 100 woodcock and some sparrows and 1 quails. Thirdly, the Filler lighthouse 1 kills every aesson some 700 woodcock. An old sportsmsn of Normandy de- ! rlares that round the llghtboue of i Harfleur Isst November there were picked up lo the course of four nights 10.000 birds of all sons. Imiitdlng i 1.800 woodeork. The destruction of I bird life by the hundreds of light- I bouses elsewhere tan only be imag- ' Ined. |
