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By BOB THOMAS : - Cana di: an Press. Staff writer found ‘the ‘ -redshank “sighting Baillie believes .adequate food|was abwut, average. Watchers | bohemian waxwings. Heavy snow owl. . oe
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Variety’ Ss ‘latest figures, ‘Verne’ 8
Around the World in 80, Days has

| grossed $22,000,000:in the United
| States yond: ‘Canada ‘alone. ° His
20, 090: Leagues . Under. the. Sea
has ‘accounted - for.-$8, 000, 000 do- |-

Macpherson, could hardly}
believe his eyes when he
| spotted. a redshank near

Halifax. recently, » my
“Tig ds the most. exciting bird |
I have ‘seen: in ‘the whole of my,
life,” he said. *

TP his. identification: is ‘correct, |

“Everybody’s” going to question
it,”:-he said. ©

“The: redshank: was the Cana-
dian. highlight of the annual
Christmas .bird census sponsored
throughout North America ” by’
the National Audubon Society,
‘But. there. were other, unusual
birds seen. *

 In'Newfoundland cowhirds and
ecdar. ‘waxwings - were: reported

in dictating migratory habits, he
said.
STARLINGS RETURN

. Startled birdwatchers counted
more ‘than. 39,000 starlings in
Vancouver where they were un-
known 10 years ago, \ In the Tor-
onto area three new species were.

noted—a mockingbird, a brant.

and* a. red-belled . woodpecker,

Near St. Thomas, Ont, a. record:

ifax spotters: counted a low 36
species in ‘high winds and poor
visibility. The. - “previous. yéar
count was 48. St: John’s, Nfld.,
made a record count of 31 species
although the bird total of 2,646
was -about 1,000 below the two
previous years, due. to a ‘scarcity
of dogberrics. Pigeonhawks made
x comeback “Around the New-

   

south ‘of, Regina 17 species were
noted. among: 672 . birds, mostly
house sparrows ‘and » common
redpolls. -Thite redwing black-
birds, three great horned -owls, a
blue jay and a starling apparent-
ly decided not to migrate. : Con-
siderable | grain. was left

In,

Prairie fields becauso: ‘of early.

snow last fall. 0,

the 112 485 birds. _counted.

 

4 Prince Rupert ‘Dally: News.
_ Monday, February 1/1960

 

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‘MANY ‘OF THE.

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— . _Mawtleally.| Currently, Joumey ie the first tne a redshank| for‘the. first time. Another, raro|count . was “niade’ of . ruffed. in Canada. where these _ birds | ducted -mostly-around Winnipeg, - BEST PARTIES | . ‘
_ big. money-maker, for 20th Cen-|iéq,.'A common: Buropéan shore ‘bird'was a turkey. vulture scer |grouse.’ New species“sighted inz/winter. " " turnéd up'l,440 Birds of 37. types, ENJOY: OUR DELICIOUS | qf

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‘tury-Fox,: ending a box office
paw “drought for. that. company...

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‘The Verne‘popularity’ is:shown
“by” the fact that four different |
producers have ‘announced plans|
“to film one of his ‘books publish-
“ed. variously as The Castaways,
-In‘Search of the Castaways and
Captain Grant’s Children, Walt
Disney. claims victory,

We have registered all three
-. titles with: the Johnston. office,”
‘he declared, »“We- also own. the
to. world-wide relense,
‘having bought ‘them from’ thie’
Verne estate after four years of
negotiation, The book Js In-pub-
ic: domain in this country, but
it's protected abrond,”

bird, : ‘the redshank*. had never
heen: seen’ farther. ‘west. than
Greenland and is.a rarity there.

Dry Macpherson sald he want-'
ed'to shoot the redshank for of-
ticla) confirmation : “but didn't
see it agaln, °

BLOWN BY. WINDS |

_ "T have been expecting one for
somo time as forcign birds are
often blown here” “by freak,
winds.” :

 

Jim Baillio, assistant in the
department of: birds at Toronto’ 8

near Vancouver, Montreal spot-
ters “saw. an uncommon brown
thrasher. in the city centre and
a Baltimore ortole: in the sub-
urbs. Both normally winter in
Central America, .. ».

Robins that missed’ the flight
south were seen near Regina,
Winnipeg and. Saint John, N.B,
Raro finds: around Edmonton
wero a pilented woodpecker, an
Amorlean merganser, ‘duck and.
mallards,’ Nearly ‘2,000 ducks
were attempting to winter near
Calgary: and winter shooting was

cluded catbird, brown thrasher |}
and hermit. thrush...

“The Toronto count produced 70
species ‘compared. ‘with the 10-

year: average of 74, The ‘total: of.

‘18,146, was below: average, how-
ever. . Rarities ‘Ineluded ereen-
winged teal, rusty blackbirds and
yollow-shafted flickers.

Ottawa. reported 45 species, 10
more ‘than the: previous year
when -weather was bad, Strange-
ly, only one glaucous. gull was
geen “and ieclandic ‘or — black-
backed gulls woro.totally absont,

_ About 2,000 ‘birds of 22 species
wore. counted near. Quobee City
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‘EWER OLD SQUAW: oh
; Prince Edward ‘Island. reported | -
fower'’. ‘species due :to. extensive
freezing , of ‘water areas. Old
Squaw. were down Jn numbers
‘but, American’ mergansers were
up. . Poor visibility in the Saint
John area.of New Brunswick re-
duced the.total to 33 spectes and
2,653 birds, Usually more than
§,000 gulls are seen, In the Fred-
oricton area watchers saw 1,018
hirds of 30 species.

Edmonton reported , 4,239 birds
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VICTORIA ()—-Neil McCallum,
former chief engineer of the B.C,
highways. department, is leaving
an. Edmonton firm to’ become as-
sociated with. a-group of paving
consultants here, -

‘Mr, McCallum. resigned his po-

altion with the highways depart-
mont -in 1054 and beeame man-

nger.of Genornl Construction Co.

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