Identifier: birdlore19nati (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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mense amount of good workhowever, was accomplished, and at thespecial session of our national lawmakerscalled for April 16, 1917, the bill willagain be introduced and its considerationwill be pressed.116) The Audubon Societies 117 HOSTS OF WATER-FOWL IN LOUISIANA Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny, who keeps well-informed as to conditions about the bird-refuges in southern Louisiana, and to whoseskill and generosity we owe the admirablephotograph accompanying this article,reports, in a letter quoted below, thatwater-fowl are extraordinarily plentifulthere. The past summer was most favorablefor the growth of duck-feed, and the mar- Scaups and Redheads occupied the lakesof this tract and the State Game Preserve.On Marsh Island vast numbers of Gad-walls, Baldpates, and Mallards were tobe found, and great numbers of BlueGeese, with a few Snow Geese, occupiedMarsh Island throughout the entire au-tumn. These Geese later moved to theGrand Chenier tract in the vicinity ofConstances Bayou, where they congre-
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L»LCK.-> IN WIMER ON A LOUISIANA REtUGl. shes, ponds, and lakes were filled with allkinds of the most attractive feed for Ducksand Geese; and in the early fall the Ducksand Geese came in enormous quantities.The fall and early winter . . . were verydry, and the birds congregated in amazingnumbers wherever there was water. Theprincipal centers for bird-population were:for Pintails, Mallards, and Teal, on bothsides of the Grand Chenier Ridge; forMallards and Teals on the Ward-Mcll-henny tract, between the camp and theGulf; and great quantities of Canvasbacks, gated in enormous numbers, and wherethere are still a great number. At presentthere are more Ducks on the LouisianaState Preserve than I have ever knownthere. On the lake near my camp I esti-mate there are 40,000 Canvasbacks; andon the Louisiana State Game Preserve andLake Fearman, and on the North andSouth lakes, vast numbers of Canvasbacks,Scaups, Baldpates and Gadwalls. Tealare everywhere, and the present winterhas shown a gr

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