10—MIGRATION IN WAR-TIME 
WRITER in Lectures pourT ous, in 1916, 
declared that ‘“‘the War had changed 
all the habits of migrating birds.” 
He stated that ‘‘the STorKs which make 
their home in Alsace began to leave that 
country a full fortnight before war was de- 
clared,”’ and attributed this ‘‘to the noise 
of the movement of the German artillery on 
its way to attack France’’! He went on to 
say: ‘“‘In normal times nearly all the birds 
of passage used to pass over France on their 
way north or south, but the thunder of the 
guns has changed all this. The route taken 
by Woopcocks leaving England for warmer 
climes is across the Channel into Brittany, 
and then by way of the Loire, Charentes, 
and Landes to the Pyrenees; and as these 
birds do not have to cross the war zone, they 
have kept to their old route throughout the 
hostilities. But their brethren from Scan- 
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