Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — BIRDS WITH ODD WAYS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIRDS WITH ODD WAYS.

Borrowing Owls, Ostriches mud Mend Bnlldcrs. Of course all the birds live In more or less dose relation to the earth, but somo are peculiarly associated with It or depend upon it more especially for certain requir meats. Not the least Interesting of these are the burrowing owls. These, unlike their tree or tower haunting relatives, make their home underground, digging their tunnels together and laying their eggs at the farther end. Here in tie darkness the little owlets are hatched, and here they feed, on fat grasshoppers and mice until they are able to climb up and look upon the world for themselves. It Is curious that these owls, which of all their family would seem to have the best practice In their youth for learning to use their eyes In the dark, are not nocturnal, but dig their burrows, catch their food and do their courting in broad daylight Ostriches may be mentioned as types $f birds which have found it so gor.d for them to spend their life in running that they are without the power of flight and are never able to rise above the ground—“winged creatures” of the earth, not the “air.” The bird which is pre-eminently of the earth earthy lives in the far antipodes—Australia and the Philippine Islands. It Is the megapode, or mound builder, and has the curious habit of burying its eggs in the ground or in a mound of leaves and dirt, leaving then! -reptile-like—to hatch from the heat generated in the pile of decaying vegetation. It is thought that the parents never see their offspring, which are fully feathered when they leave the egg and able to dig out and fly at once. This unusual development at birth 1* made possible by the great amount of nourishing yolk in the eggs, which are very large in proportion to the size of the bird. Think of a member of this class of birds, made to spend its life partly in the air,, hatching in a tightly packed, damp mound of earth six feet below the surfacel We cannot censure the parents for shirking the responsibilities of incubation when we think of the enormous amount of work necessary to collect such masses of rubbish, which measure sometimes 150 feet in circumference and fourteen feet in height." Of course this is not collected In one year, says C. William Beebe, in the New York Tribune, but it is a great_undertaking for birds no larger than our common grouse. Thus we see man cannot take the credit of having first used an artificial Incubator to hatch the eggs of birds.

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