Identifier: birdlore141912nati (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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way 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 385 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 primarily receiving the benefit
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WARDEN (J. t. hAWARl) Ol- OKAMjE LAkL, FLORIDA, ROOKERYPhotographed by Dr. H. R. Mills 386 Bird-Lore of the wardens watchfulness are: White and Brown PeHcans; Herring, West-ern and Laughing Gulls; Common, Arctic, Caspian, Royal, Cabots and LeastTerns; Puffins; 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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