Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leisure Magazine Winnipeg free february 1967 Chickadee notes 631 by Harold Mossop Birds powerful hearts by its heart of was my answer to a High school student who asked what makes a Bird but there of a lot More to be explained about a Birds inner being War blooded Verte and usually very a Birds require Large and powerful As with mans and other Birds hearts Are four chambered the blood is pumped through one Side of the heart to the lungs where its then is returned to the hearts other from where i t s again pumped through the circulatory sys rapid to provide for Birds Streun Active lives and their High metabolic their hearts Are of necessity not Only Large but also beat very one of the first organs to develop within the Young the heart is said to begin beating within Days after the egg is the More Active the the larger the Small Birds Are generally More Active than larger and therefore have much larger hearts in proportion to their this is also True in Birds of similar size but of different this was clearly shown As i once dressed a Large ruffed grouse and a Sharp tailed grouse for the divested of their feathers and Laid Side by they appeared identical in but the heart of the ruffed grouse was puny compared to the robust pump of the just How far a ruffed grouse is Able to maintain its strenuous Mode of flight in not prepared to but in crossing a Quarter Section Ive seen More than one suddenly land with Droop ing appear to be but a Sharp Tail can Fly for Why be cause its provided with a More powerful the Bird wit i the largest heart for its size is probably the so strenuous is its flight and so rapid its rate of metabolism that its heart May exceed on fifth of total body in compari mans heart May account for Only half of one per cent of his total How fast does a Birds heart beat the rate varies with different species of increases under the Muscles of a hummers heart Are said to squeeze the blood through in powerful contractions at the rate of goo times a but if the Bird is excited or under this rate May be increased to or with All of the Active species such As Warb chickadees and 500 to 600 beats a minute is when clucking contentedly in the even a Domestic hens heart is working at about 300 beats a failed years while boating on the red River in i scooped tip with my hand what appeared to be a swim Ming water it turned out to be a the tiniest of for perhaps two seconds it stood up on the Palm of my gritting its Teeth in a Buist of violent then it rolled Over its Little excited to a Speed far beyond had probably failed under the this has also happened to injured Small Birds that have been picked up by Well meaning human the double due first to the injury and then to being May be just too much for overworked in most cases its probably better to leave injured Small Birds if there not in Feiffer Happy immediate at least until the initial Shock from the injury has Only with extreme care and should the highly excitable Little patient be bohemians Are still wander no Winter Birds arouse More curiosity or admiration than the now plentiful Bohem Ian roaming the country in bands of a Hall dozen to 100 or they Delight the Eye of Many an observer with their Beauty a they often close to House on Frozen today photo of one of these beauties is by Bryan of 137 Egerton Wrux Wing strange to relate psychic crime solver by Frank Edwards i n recent More and More police departments have called upon psychics for help in solving sometimes the psychics have been Wong in their and sometimes Treyve been partly but sometimes these strange and gifted individuals have a produced answers which solved baffling in the autumn of Amsterdam police were confronted with a series of brutal attacks on when a Young Teirl was subjected to an especially vicious the harassed police decided to turn to the famed Gerard i As is customary in such the pay a Chic was provided with a garment the 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