Show BIRDS I 1 R DS BUILD BUILD THEIR NESTS UNDER FIRE philadelphia pa birds build nests in european forests while trees are being shelled during the artillery engagements according to dr arthur A allan head of the department devoted to bird study at cornell cornel university ver sity who spoke at the amerlean american ornithologists meeting here recently he said a doctor with an a ambulance M corps in france counted 35 species of birds that had built nests in ruins of buildings and trenches abandoned by inhabitants and soldiers artillery fire that sweeps away entire sections of woods falls fails to disturb the birds which happen to be building there doctor allan said the observer was able to see a number of these birds building nests under fire T the I 1 ie t tree r ee in which one of fiare the bir birds d s w was a s making a nest was entirely swept away by a shell but a bird on a neighboring tree kept right on building |