Identifier: birdlore14nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ound it impossible to get those interested in acting with me to permit ofany publicity in the matter because these pot-hunters are their old-timefriends. A plan is being framed whereby we expect to be able, with the cooper-ation of the Canadian authorities, to abolish this shooting. During the winter, five schools in Detroit and seventeen in other partsof the state were aided in feeding the winter birds and making shelters. Duringthe year, I have given sixty-seven lectures to schools, churches, clubs, fraternalsocieties and sportsmens organizations. I occupied the pulpit in churches Reports of Field Agents 411 of nine denominations, and spoke on Audubon and humane work at bothmorning and evening services. To magazines and newspapers I contributedtwenty-two articles on birds, animals, forestry and other forms of wild life.I was interviewed by thirty-four newspaper writers, all of whom publishedsuch interviews. During the latter part of ^\inter, reports came of the loss of great numbers
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VIEW ON FORD BIRD FARM NEAR DETROIT. MICHIGANUnder supervision of Mr. Jefferson Butler 412 Bird-Lore of the Bob-white, due to the intense cold and lack of food. Letters were sentto representative men and women in all parts of the state, requesting theiraid in seeing that these birds had food and shelter provided. We feel that muchuseful work was done through the active cooperation of some of these men andwomen in pubhshing articles in the press, in securing the help of the ruralmail-carriers, and in braving the snow and storms themselves to provideshelter and food. The state Game-Warden, Mr. William B. Gates, aided inevery way possible in this matter, as well as in protecting the wild Ducks,:Mergansers, Grebe and other water-birds that had been driven from the GreatLakes into the towns, owing to the freezing over of Lakes Superior, Huronand Michigan. Information came that many hundreds of water-birds appeared along shore,searching for food, and were slaughtered at the springs and air-

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