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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1915alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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egardthe statutes for the conservation of their natural resources of field,forest and streams as the most popular laws enacted in fifty years. The wild life of Alabama is steadily coming back. Deer andturkey each year are seen in numbers in counties from which theyhad practically disappeared twenty years ago. Indeed, a citizen ofTuscaloosa county has for the past two years written the Com-missioner of Game and Fish, each season, demanding pay for hisanuanl pea crop which he alleges has been destroyed by herds ofthe States deer. It is safe to assert that Alabama is far ahead of any other South-ern State in game, bird and fish conservation, being the pioneer inthe South in this regard and that the laws rank along with those ofthe older States of the North and East. There is therefore guaranteed to our people and to posterity afair and reasonable supply of game which bids fair to increase to thepoint when, as of yore, Alabama will become a hunters paradise,a veritable sportsmans elysium.
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Alabama, ipi5. 69 BARN OWL HIS Owl is about seventeen inches in length. Its facial disk T-**W ^»TX ^ .*»VU.. w,V, T x,XXl.V,V,XX XXXV,XXW XXX 1WX&is not circular as in our other owls; the plumage above ispale yellow, and beneath varying from silky white to palebright tawny. It is a resident of Mexico, in the southernUnited States and north to New York, Ohio, Nebraska and Cali-fornia. The barn owl, often called monkey-faced owl, is one of themost beneficial of the birds of prey, since it feeds almost exclu-sively on small mammals that injure farm produce, nursery andorchard stock. It hunts principally in the open and consequentlysecures such mammals as pocket gophers, field mice, common rats,house mice, harvest mice, kangaroo rats and cotton rats. It occa-sionally captures a few birds and insects. At least a half bushel ofthe remains of pocket gophers have been found in the nesting cavityof a pair of these birds. Remembering that a gopher has beenknown in a short time to girdle s

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