Identifier: birdlore17nati (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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un-dred photographs. May was spent inFlorida and June in Louisiana. The startwas made from New York, April 29, andthe return was on June 29. A brief sum-mary of Mr. Jobs report is here given. My companion and assistant for theFlorida trip was Dr. H. R. Mills, ofTampa, who generously gave his servicesduring his vacation, and the use of hisgasoline boat, saving the Association aheavy expense. The first locality visitedwas the Egret rookery at Orange Lake,owned by the National Association. which have been established through theefforts of the National Association ofAudubon Societies: Passage Key (Herons);Indian or Bird Key, near St. Petersburg(Pelicans, Cormorants, Herons, Man-o-war Birds); Charlotte Harbor (WhiteIbises, Louisiana Herons, etc.); AlligatorBay (American Egret rookery). We alsotraced out an unknown rookery of theWhite Ibis, far up a lonely river, wherethere were about 1,500 occupied nests,and about ten thousand others deserted.It had recently been shot out—a crueltragedy!
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412 Bird- Lore Cruising down to Cape Sable, wetraversed Florida Bay to Key West,chartered a larger craft, and crossed theturbulent waters, seventy miles, to BirdKey, Dry Tortugas. On this Govern-ment reservation the colony of Sooty andNoddy Terns, and of non-breeding Man-o-war Birds, has increased remarkablysince my visit in 1903, and the wonderfulsight of possibly 75,000 birds on eightacres is now recorded on the spectacularfilm there taken. Leaving Florida, several days werenext spent at Avery Island, Louisiana,where I was most kindly entertained byMr. E. A. Mcllhenny, whose astoundingcolony, artificially built up, of 40,000Snowy Egrets, Herons and other water-l)irds, attracted to his overflowed garden,might well be considered the eighthwonder of the world. Here one maypractice photography de luxe from Mr.Mcllhennys draped house-boat or float-ing blind. The record week of June was devotedto the cruise over the Breton Island andAudubon reservations with Ex-PresidentRoosevelt, whom I

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