Where are a birds ears located?
Flocks of birds are back from who knows where, and all outdoors is alive with their busy activity. We cannot help but notice them. They tease our curiosity, we want to know more about them, which is right and proper, their smalls feathery bodies are so very different from ours. We want to know how the little darlings manage to cope with life in the wild when they have no hands, no arms and no ears ¬or so it seems. The warbling vireos trill their solos from the trees and thickets; the bobolink replies with a melody from his perch in the reeds. The meadowlark adds a fluty tune, and maybe the mockingbird pours forth his throaty music just to show the other songsters that he is star of this caroling concert. No sensible person is too busy to pause and listen to the birds and watch them flutter about their springtime duties. Young people, as a rule, want to do more than watch and admire the busy birds. They are curious to know how the smalls feathery, fairy dike creatures cope with their pr