Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1919 — Birds Adopt Conservation; Some Brake Beams [ARTICLE]

Birds Adopt Conservation; Some Brake Beams

Some species of birds among the migrants to the West s and South do not depend upon their wings alone to speed them on their journey. According to a Nevada railway official, whom the San Francisco Chronicle quotes, various birds, especially sparrows and linnets, have adopted a less fatiguing method of transit than that which we usually consider as their natural one, by riding on the brake beams of trains. He described an incident in which some hundreds, of birds, riding on a Southern Pacific train that was passing through Nevada from the East, suddenly flew from‘their perches beneath the coaches when the train, passed over a rough crossing.