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Show BIRDS SELECT OD"', PLACES FOR NE ; Robin Makes Home in falo Skull in Park Muse Yellowstone Park, Wyo. ' ' more than 2,000,000 acres of , land from which to choose, bt Yellowstone National park ai -lecting strange places to nest, --! ranger naturalists report A robin in the Old Faithful . disdainfully passed up the sand of lodgepole pines and dc to make its home In a buffalo " hanging in the museum. A'1' crowned sparrow in the same ity decided that the ground i museum amphitheater would 1 " V ideal location for her offsprinf reared one brood there, decide ' -the location was too public -' -moved into a tree for her s. -: family. .. -z Desiring complete privacy :"-one-family cottage another : chose a convenient location b :' a transom in the home of tb : sistant to the park superinter . for her two families of four',',: while still another robin has c the superintendent's home as . suitable environment for rais 7. family. ' "( At the Old Faithful museur' " ' housing problem was reportt being acute, all apartments i -many bird houses being full. 1 " : tain chickadees, bluebirds, :: swallows, white-crowned spar and robins all live in the same -;' of houses. " ; Two hundred sixteen speci birds make their homes in the coming from the Gulf cf M( U. ti-.e south Paci5c coast, anc north Pacific coast Amonj r-rarer r-rarer species in Yellowstone : trumpeter swar.s, which are . ing extinction, and sand hill cr F.ar.ger naturalists are able to ' ' out dozens of species cn n walks which they conduct fa"' benefit cf park visitors. |