Show PERCHES SAVE BIRDS LIVES simple idea which has resulted in the preservation of thousands of migrating songsters Song bird lovers in great britain will soon be watching for the return of the first migrants and those especially who live near the sea will remember the kindly thought of the royal society for the protection of birds in its work of providing resting places and perches on the lighthouses lighth without which great numbers flutter round and round the dazzling light until they fall it was wag thought at one time that thi birds attracted by the light against the glass but the dutch naturalist ur alist mr jsse discovered that they merely new flew round and round the incomprehensible gleam and he devised tile plan of putting up tip a screen of perches above and below the light elgh t to which they ml might lit cling and rest before resuming their journey by daylight the alie experiment was first tried at the great Terse belling light where the destruction was reduced from a thousand wand in a night to a hundred in a season the bird protection society has now nov set up these perches on four english lighthouses the caskets st catherines spurn head lighthouse and the south bishop lighthouse each equipment costs and 20 a year upkeep the society hopes as funds allow to extend the plan to other lighthouses where many thousands of birds are still falling every migration season science monitor |