Identifier: birdlore24nati (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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e familiar with this growing evilwill it be of interest to know that at last amovement has been started in Congress tocheck this destructive agency. On January 3, 1922, Congressman Hicksintroduced into the House of Representativesa joint resolution (H. J. Res. 247) authorizing and requesting the President of the UnitedStates to call an international conference ofmaiitime nations to consider the advisabilityof entering into an agreement to control thepollution of the navigable waters of the worldon the part of oil-burning and oil-carryingvessels through the dumping into said watersof oil waste, fuel oil, oil sludge, oil slop, tarresidue, and other water ballast impregnatedwith oil, and the resolution was referred totlie Committee on Foreign Affairs, House ofRepresentatives. This is a step in the rightdirection toward an effective control of whatis becoming a very serious menace not onlyto our migrator) wild fowl, but to otherforms of life in the sea and bays and lowercourses of rivers.
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1. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, MALE. SPRING 2. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, YOUNG MALE. FALL 3. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, FEMALE. SPRING 4. BICOLORED RED-WING, MALE SPRING 5. TRICOLORED RED-WING, MALE, SPRING 6. TRICOLORED BLACKBIRD. FEMALE. SPRING 2ftrb=1lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DBVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XXIV March-April. 1922 No. 2 When the Birds Come North By GRACE A. HILL, Pullman, Wash. ONE cold day in April, while we were having a snowstorm, the EiderDucks began to pass Synuk (a native village 30 miles north of Nome).The Eskimo children said ropes and ropes of them. They flew overthe frozen ocean about a quarter of a mile from the shore. For over a weekthere was no time in the day when at least one black cloud was not visibledrifting past, and often for hours at a time there was a constant procession.While they did not form the V of many migrating birds, they seemed to followa general head and often several long ropes trailed out

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