Show ate ea sa sarp to martl 4 BIRDS IN THE ZOO T AM a Trum trumpeter pete r swan an and it I 1 be 1 long to the bird family though I 1 walk on my long legs flying for me of 0 course as you yon can tell by my name I 1 can make a trumpetlike sound and its a wild shriek I 1 can tell you it can be heard a long distance off now I 1 am snowy white and very beautiful it Is said I 1 am tame and I 1 love my keeper and I 1 make the greatest noise when he feeds me to show that I 1 want him to know that im thanking him in fact we all do that we all shriek with delight and we all thank him too in our different ways when people come to the zoo and are around our part of the park and bear all of us making our thank you sounds and sounds of delight when we see the keeper with our food they dont know what has happened they their rush toward us ns and they come along saying whatever do does es all the noise menar mean they seem to think that something dreadful Is happening hut but that Is because they do not know our shrieks of delight they dont understand happy in their home lives the different sounds birds make and what they mean but our keeper knows oh oft yes he understands ile he knows so much about birds ile he will tell you that the bald eagle and the golden engles eagles and the ducks and the geese and the swans and the crones cranes and the dear devoted canadian goose family are so happy in their home lives and that the mates are true and good to one another all through their bird lives ho he will tell of the devotion ot of robins and thrushes of swallows and of the herons and of the hawks and the buzzards ne he will tell how bow seldom it Is that there are quarrels la in the bird fa families milles he will tell too how loving the doves are to one another throughout their bird lives and it if an a little mrs dove should lose her beloved mate she will not take another mate but will mourn her whole life through so it if people will only learn more about birds and the feathered creatures tures perhaps they will want to be nicer still to birds and will want to protect them all they can the bluebirds bluebird sand and the kingfishers king fishers put on airs and act very fond of themselves at times but the they y too are good mates and the parrots for all their shrieking and yelling are so devoted in their home lives it Is beautiful to see the devotion that birds show some of the birds from abroad have different ways and are quite curious the keeper says gays that there Is a snipe family abroad and that the miss snipes court the mr snipes instead of the other way around as it should be that certainly shows lack of dignity and I 1 should also think lack of charm surely a miss snipe with charm would not have to do anything like that but after they mate mr snipe sits on the eggs and Is a regular homebody and does just as mrs snipe says the button quail family are the same way and miss button quail will actually propose to mr button quail and ask him to be her mate that certainly Is queer perhaps it Is because they have no hind bind toes ive heard beard that they hind bind toes 6 but now rye told all rye ive heard beard the keeper say and I 1 hope my language can be understood billie brownie who had been listening explained how he understood because of the way mother nature had given him the power to understand her children and I 1 will tell all my friends and they will tell their friends and well get the information about youve told me beautiful trumpeter swan for it Is all very interesting and all quite true said the trilla peter swan but then the trumpeter swan gave a long piercing whistle and the other birds began to yell sell and shriek and flap their wings and look very much excited excuse me wont you asked the trumpeter swan it Is very important I 1 keep this engagement I 1 have bare and billie brownie looked and along came the keeper with food for all his birds so of course billie brownie boie understood what the trumpeter swans important engagement was copyright copy right |