Identifier: birdlore101908nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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y, we discovered many large coloniesof breeding birds. The most important, perhaps, was a colony of 500 White-faced Glossy Ibis, which were nesting in the same locality with the Black-crownedNight Herons. We found several colonies of Great Blue Herons and FaralloneCormorants nesting together. Besides some small colonies, we found one localitywhere about two thousand Western Grebe were breeding. The most populouscolony we found was one composed of thousands of White Pelicans and Ringbilled and California (kills nesting near together. In addition, we found a colonyof Eared Grebe nesting with a colony of Western Grebe; also several small col- 292 Bird - Lore onies of Forsters and Black Tern, one colony of Caspian Terns that were nest-ing with the California Gulls; Pied-billed Grebe and American Coots werecommon all through the lake region. At one place we found a large number ofCoots living about the same locality. In addition to Black-necked Stilts, Avocets and other wading birds, great
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WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS One of a colony of five hundred on Lake Malheur Reservation; the only colony known in Oregon. Photographed by Finley and Bohlman numbers of Ducks and Geese lived all through this region. The southeasternportion of the lake is a great breeding-ground for Canada Geese. We saw manyold birds with flocks of young almost grown. In one place I counted 540 oldand young geese. Further on I counted 360 more. Still further on I countedflocks that numbered 570 Geese. This made almost 1,500 Canada Geese in onepart of the lake that were seen within an hour. There were likely thousandsmore all through the tules. Reports of Field Agents 293 Until a few years ago, the White Egret (Herodias egretta) was quite abundantabout Malheur lake, but after a months search we saw but two of these birdsand found no sign of their nests. In 1898, a plume hunter told me he made hun-dreds of dollars in a day and a half, shooting White Herons on Lake Malheur.He has often made as high as $400 and

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