7—EFFECT OF AIR-RAIDS AND AIR- 
CRAFT ON BIRDS 
to the effect of the War on birds as 
regards Great Britain. In asubsequent 
chapter I shall deal with observations on 
birds in the actual war zones, but I now pro- 
pose to record how air-craft, gun-fire, air- 
raids, and the like affected birds, particularly 
in this country. 
That birds should regard an aeroplane, 
especially one of the monoplane type, as a 
huge FALCON, or other RAPTOR, might be con- 
sidered as not only probable but natural, and 
there are numerous records of birds being 
obviously terrified by them (Scottish Natural- 
ist, 1916, pp. 39, 164). GULLS, in the early 
days of the War, were sadly put about and 
scared by aeroplanes that hovered over the 
Breydon flats, but they soon began to pay 
no heed to them (Zoologist, 1915, p. 95). On 
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