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S-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday. April 23rd, 1980 Bird migration rentains a :mystery; Suddenly, it's spring and - wave after wave of returning . bir.ds are rolling northwards ■ over the Ontario landscape. ■ The first tentative scouting by horned larks and early robins is once again history; the noisy flocks of grackles, blackbirds, and cowbirds have swept through on their heels. Ducks and geese now add colour to the chilly waters finally freed from ice, and the chirping of sparrows adds life ,to the tangled branches of ravine or garden. As you welcome back your feathered friends, give a , thought to their remarkable achievements in their yearly travels. That blackpoll, warbler, warbler, for example, that briefly , rests in your garden, has probably made a nonstop overwater flight of more than 2300 miles, lasting about 86 hours without rest. To find favourable winds, this fragile mite, with a body scarcely the size of a hen's egg, may have fclimbed to the cold oxygen- poor altitude of 21,000 feet. The arctic tern, which nests to within 450 miles of the north pole, in contrast winters in the other end of the earth in 983-5301 the Antarctic. If the flight of the tern is amongst the most graceful of movements in the natural world, perhaps thpt grace results from the abuhd- ; ance of practice, in a twice- yearly flight from pole to pole. Why should so many birds, more than two-thirds of the over 600 species on this continent, subject themselves to the annual hazards of migration? After all, the Cardinal, and many other species, rarely travel more than ten miles from their birthplace in a lifetime. Some experts believe that the ritual was founded during the Ice Age, when advancing and retreating glaciers must have forced mass movements of northern birds. Others speculate that the southern hemisphere may be the original residence of numerous species, and that each winter these birds merely merely return to their ancestral home. By invading northwards northwards each summer, these adventurers colonized a vast new area for food and nesting space that was temporarily available. Long northern days provide more time for feeding and the young nestlings nestlings could take advantage of abundant food to mature quickly. R. Winter Painting and Decorating Interior and Exterior Painting Decorating 983-5545 ELECTRICAL/ ► WORK IS SORE A SAMP-. • '>v mw WELL EQUIPPED TO DO O. Chattertqn Electrical Contracting Phone 983-5546 or 983-5940 . Orono, Ontario, CftryWaU Taping - Spray Ceilings Plaster Repair Painting Wally Lucyk 983-5518 ORONO Clarke Public LIBRARY PHONE 983-5507 ♦ Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:001o5:00p.m. Orono, Ontario TELEPHONE 623-6555 JOHN MANUEL, C.G.A. 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