The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1931, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1981 Dr. Francis H. Herrick, professor emeritus of biology at Western Reserve university, and two photographs of eagles he obtained in Ohio by climbing towers erected close to aeries. Left, a mother eagle is bringing a fish from Lake Erie to her newly hatched young. The nestling of four weeks, lower right, is covered with gray down. AMERICAN EAGLE LITERALLY LEARNS TO FLY WITHIN EGG ., | The bird is extremely rapid in its Student of Feathered Family} movements. In photographing it, Dr. d d. Her had to use a camera with a Gives Facts on Independ- | shutter opening in one 450th of a sec- ence of Birds peel —— The white population of Porto Rico Cleveland, July 29.—()—The na-|j, og; “ i ipear ertinalen tie Anierickh eacle: 1e| at ran es SF between 70 auMliTo OEE a fitting representation of the inde- pendence of the United States. ¢ (a Dr. Francis H. Herrick, professor emeritus of biology at Western Re-|; + serve university, offers the latest con- | | Head in 1942 | tribution to the tradition of the! ¢—————__________- eagle’s independence. es ‘The American eagle literally learns | to fly in the egg, before it is hatched, and is not dependent upon an anxious mother to flit about, giving it first lessons. | Instinct in Germ Plasm | ‘The flying instinct, he says, is born | in the germ plasm of the egg. Dr. Herrick has spent 10 years in delving into the private life of the bird. Near Vermilion, Ohio, where eagles | have made their homes for 80 years, | Professor Herrick erected tall towers | close to their aeries, watched them for long hours during the nesting pe- riod, and took still and motion pic- tures of them; also copious notes, Only two or three eagles are hatched in the nest at a time, Her- rick observed, generally only two, Fighters From First From the earliest age they are fighters, and a little downy nestling has been known to kill its compan- ion. ‘Their home, the aerie, is about five | feet across and eight or nine feet} high, made of limbs an inch to two inches in diameter, and weighing | around two tons. The aerie last forj. many generations until a storm blows | Jf all goes well, George F. Olendort, it from the top of a tall, sturdy tree. |#bove, of Springfield, Mo., will be “When about eight weeks old the |Come imperial potentate of North bird begins hopping from one side of | America’s Shriners 11 years hence. the serie to the other. | That's because Shriners at their an- “When about nine weeks old it|nual convention in Cleveland, Ohio, rises about eight to 10 feet in the air Clected him imperial outer guard, and circles around the nest many Which assures him of the highest times a da: office in 1942 by a system of annual vy. “During flight practice it takes les- progression. sons om its instinct in seizing its |g. ee prey. le prey is a stick, which it ry . ounces upon, holds it in its talo Stickler Solution | like it would a fish, and soars, When | ¢—————____________—- @ finally it leaves the nest it is a mas-| {~~ ter of flight; nature does not trust it | until it is. | “The parent birds take no part in the lessons, but during all this prac- | = the bill-to-bill feeding is contin-| Can Stand Cold Dr. Herrick found the eagle can stand severe cold, and never migrates | unless there is a heavy snow. One| eagle, finally bagged by hunter, was} found to have 18 shots in its body, the result of many unsuccessful at- tempts to kill it. | The eagle’s realm is a matriarchy. If a female bird loses her mate she| goes in search of another, Dr. Her-| | rick found. If a male loses his mate, | he waits on the aerie for a female to| arrive and claim him. i} SIDE GLANC - - By George Clark | Thus shows how the encular piece of sround may be dinded ino four equal j parts, each part with a cottage on it. 5 | He'll Be Shrine || with ALL MY LOVE AND A THOUSAND KISSES~ Yo THE DEAREST ~ KINDEST= NOBLEST= SWEETHEART NOTHE WORLD = My BIMBO YOURS - FOREVER? 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