Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-12 | Page 5 | Queer Quirks of Nature

u NATI NAT U RE CANT CAN'T SWIM S WlM RUT 7 5 is i-is OX 0 TIEr TEn W Ky Dy N PACK I nt American Nature Asso I elatIon dUlon One ot or the most curious or of o our waders Is the necked black stilt All his upper surface is black and all below Is white Not by accident Is he ho named the stilt for tor he stands on such long legs that It is to 10 think that they are all hIs own But Dut like nil long legged cr creatures he makes good uso use of ot them for ho he Is I able to wade in water vater so BO deep that Any finy any bird built on the common plan would cither either have to swim or go ashore It I is a sort law In Inthe Inthe Inthe that the bird world worM that it if 1 one one bas lias long longIs longlegs longlegs legs Is one must flutist also have a long neck and bill else starve within sight of ot Its dinner and lucre hero the cult is no exception Our necked black stilt finds Ills his t delight about the bordered rush bordered lakes o or of the tho Great Basin Dasin Ills His range Includes also the marshes of ot the lower Mississippi The bird is never hover far from far front from wet ground and here he builds bUUs his nest of grass and other herbage berbage quite an elaborate nest to keep the precious I ERRS II'S off the damp dan ground And besides tho the nest he has oth- oth other oth other er or means of ot keeping th the treasures dry do for it Ie a rise of ot water waler threat throat threatens ens ns the old birds will rais raise the structure several Inches and there there- thereby thereby by eave save the eggs from dst df