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Amazing Creations 6

Richard Gunther

The plover is a bird which lives in New
Zealand as well as Australia.
It started in NZ in 1932 as one breeding
pair, and now extends its territory from
Stewart Island right through to Canterbury
and Otago.

It lays its eggs among stones in the open,
but here's the amazing thing: it chooses
a place that is the same colour as its eggs. -�-
It chooses stones of a similar shape and 0 -�, ....
colour - BEFORE it lays its eggs!
How does it know what its eggs will look like before it lays them?

The plover also has a way of protecting its eggs.
If it sees a pos_sible predator comiQg, it runs along the ground,
dragging a wing. as if it is broken.
Lured away by what loooks like an easy catch, the predator follows
the 'wounded' bird, but then, when it is far from the eggs, suddenly,
the bird flies away!

How did the plover come to use this trick?
It was never taught.
How does it know what a 'broken wing' looks like?

The more we study what most people call "instincts", the more we
see the handiwork of God
the Creator of all living
things, who built into them
such skill and wisdom.

So-called "instincts"
actually reveal the
wisdom and glory
of God.