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English: The dooryard of the president of the Meriden Bird Club

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The dooryard of the president of the Meriden Bird Club. More than one hundred redpolls and pine siskins feeding on hemp seed which has been scattered over the surface of the snow WHAT ONE VILLAGE IS DOING FOR THE BIRDS By Ernest Harold Baynes 1HAVE always had the firm coiiA'ic- tion that if people could learn to know the birds better and study the best means of attracting and pro- tecting them, the education of the people would in itself make legislation less needed, gi^'e better laws, and laws that would he kept. It was with this idea in mind that I began three years ago to interest the people in the little village of Meriden, New Hampshire, in becoming better acquainted with the birds. In order to do this, I gave in the chapel of I An address delivered before the American Ornithologists' Union at its last session, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. the Kiml)all Union Academy an illus- trated lecture which laid stress upon the economic value of birds, and in which I urged the people of Meriden, and espe- cially the students of the Academy, to start a movement looking to the organi- zation of a bird club. The matter was immediately taken up and with the assis- tance of the Academy a bird club was formed with a membership of sixty, for " the increase and protection of our local wild birds, the stimulation of interest in bird life and the gradual establishment of a model bird sanctuary." Starting with the idea that birds are very much like human beings in that

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  • booksubject:Natural_history
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