ID MIGRATION IN WAR-TIME 



A WRITER in Lectures pour Tous, 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 WOODCOCKS 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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