Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — Song Birds in the Arctic. [ARTICLE]

Song Birds in the Arctic.

It has been a source of interest and wonder to Arctic explorers to find such quantities of singing birds within the Arctic circle. They are abundant beyond belief. But the immense crops of cranberries, crowberries and cloudberries that ripen in the northern swamps account for the presence of the birds. The berries are preserved in the snow, which begins to melt about the time the songsters appear, and then they feast royally on the crystallized fruits aature lias so marvelously kept for them.