Identifier: birdlore151913nati (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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BROWN PELICAN ON TREE NEST. INDIAN KEY RESERVATION, FLORIDA Photographed by Dr. H. R. Mills EGRET PROTECTION Not included in the number of wardens mentioned above, are the sixteenmen employed the past season to locate and protect Egret colonies in thesouthern states. Report of Secretary 411 These birds had, a few years ago, become so rare, and so much publicinterest is centered in their protection, it is well to record in permanent formas complete a record of their number and distribution as possible. In North Carolina, one colony is known and protected. It contained thisyear about fifty-nine Egrets and twenty-five Snowy Egrets. In South Carolina, there are about a dozen important heronries, containingEgrets of one or both species, and a somewhat larger number of places wherea few birds breed. We estimate the number of breeding Egrets in this stateat 1,000, and of Snowy Egrets, 3,000.
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YOUNG BROWN PELICANS IN TREE NEST. INDIAN KEY RESERVATION, TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA. NOTE DIFFERENCE IN SIZE OF YOUNG Photographed by Dr. H. R. Mills. Ten wardens in Florida guarded about 2,700 breeding Egrets and 1,000Snowy Egrets. In Georgia, where our largest Egret colony is located, thenumber believed to have occurred there was 1,200. Thus, from the reports of the wardens and other sources, we believe thatit is not far from correct to say that during the past summer the Associationprotected about 4,960 large Egrets and 4,025 Snowy Egrets. Capt. B. J. Pacetti, of Ponce Park, Florida, Inspector of GovernmentBird Reservations, and, in the past, one of our most active wardens, recentlysecured the conviction of two men who shot Egrets near Daytona. The case 412 Bird-Lore of the four plume-hunters now being tried for raiding Alligator Bay Colonyand firing on our warden, Charles Allen, is still pending in the courts. JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK For future effect, perhaps the most important work in whi

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