Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1919 — Why Birds Prefer North to Nest Year After Year [ARTICLE]

Why Birds Prefer North to Nest Year After Year

It is not an easy question to answer. It has been explained that there are vague promptings of instinct derived from long inheritance; especially the “homing instinct,” which brings the robin or the oriole back to the very same pest year after year. But these explanations really explain nothing, says a bulletin of New York state education department. This, however, is true: The vigorous traces of living beings are the children of the north. That has been true all through human history and through all the history of life on the earth. The birds early learned to bring forth their young under the invigorating surroundings of the north, that they might get a right start in life.