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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ay was the wisdom of President William Dutcher, thefounder of the Association, more strikingly displayed than by his earnestinsistence during the early days of our organization that we adopt a policy ofestablishing a strong warden force to guard from feather-hunters and eggersthose colonies of water-birds threatened with extinction. This is, today, a mostimportant feature of our work. Forty-one of these guards have been employed Report of Secretary 38s during; the past season; they are distributed as follows: Connecticut, i;Florida, 8; Georgia, i; Louisiana, 2; Maine, 14; Massachusetts, i; Michigan,3; North Carolina, i; New Jersey, 2; New York, 3; South Carolina, 2; Texas,I; Virginia, 2. The birds in most of the colonies have had a prosperous year despite thestarvation of young on some of the Maine islands, due to the failure of food-supply, and the loss of eggs and young in some of the southern Heron colonies,caused by storm-winds. The birds which are i)rimarily receiving the benefit
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WARDEN O. E. BAYNARD OF ORANGK I.AKK FLORIDA, ROOKERYPhotographed by Dr. H. R. Mills 386 Bird - Lore of the wardens watchfulness are: White and Brown Pelicans; Herring, West-ern and Laughing Gulls; Common, Arctic, Caspian, Royal, Cabots and LeastTerns; Pufi&ns; Comorants; Guillemots; Egrets and other Herons; Grebes;Gallinules; Rails; Geese, and various forms of Ducks. It is impossible to make anything like an accurate estimate of the numberof many of these species, but it is probably conservative to say that from oneto two million birds inhabited the protected areas during the past year. EGRET PROTECTION Members and other friends of the Association, to the number of 950,united the past year and contributed $6,427.54 for the further protection of

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