Show PERCHES SAVE BIRDS' BIRDS LIVES Simple Idea Which Ha Has Haa Resulted In InI Inthe Inthe the Preservation of Thousands of I Migrating Songsters Bird BInl lov lowr re In Ort Arent Rr will 11 willI I I soon be he watching f for ir the return of the I first arst migrants and th those e especially iwho who live near the fie sea will remember the kindly thought of the nO 11 Soi So- So i clety for the Protection of Birds In I j Its work of providing resting places pla and perches on the lighthouses without with- with j f out which great numbers flutter round r and round the dazzling light until they fan fall I It was thought at one time that the I birds attracted by the light dl against the glass glas but the Dutch oat nut Mr discovered that I th they y merely flew round and round the Incomprehensible gleam and he devised devised devised de de- de- de the plan of putting up a screen of ot perches above and below the light to which they might cling and rest i t before beCore resuming their Journey by day light The experiment was first tried at the great grent light where the destruction was reduced from a thousand In a night to a hundred In a season The Bird Protection society has now set up these thes perches on four English lighthouses The Caskets St St. Catherine's Catherines Catherines Catherine's Cath Cath- erines erine's Spurn Head lighthouse and the South Bishop Dishop lighthouse Each equipment cOsts costs and 20 a year eRr upkeep The society hopes as funds allow to extend the plan to other ther lighthouses where many thousands of ot birds are still falling every migra migration tion season season Christian Science Mon |