File:Bird-lore (1909) (14726677586).jpg

Identifier: birdlore11nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
the fight for the better protectionof our birds. It was the A. O. U. com-mittee, under its chairman, WilliamDutcher, which dispensed the ThayerFund, and largely from this phase of thecommittees work the National Associa-tion of .\udubon Societies developed.Every director of this Association is amember of the American OrnithologistsUnion; and all have taken an active partin bird-protective work. Let us also remember that, in 1883, atthe first meeting of the .\merican Ornithol-ogists Union, there was appointed a com-mittee, with Dr. C. Hart Merriam as chair-man, which two years later, as a result ofan appeal made by the Union to Congress,became the Division of Economic Mam-malogy and Ornithology of the UnitedStates Department of .\griculture, and isnow the Bureau of Biological Survey. Tothe scientific ornithologists who com-pose this Bureau we are indebted for fully90 per cent of the facts on which any log-ical, effective plea for the conservation ofbird-life must of nccessitv be based.
Text Appearing After Image:
0^ ^ ■ lis ^n^. HOUSE WRENOrder—Passerbs Family—Troglodytid^b Genus—Troglodytes Species—Abdon THE HOUSE WREN By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT ^t\t i;5ational ^association of ^audufaon Societies EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 39 SINCE the work of bird protection has become a matter of internationalinterest, we have heard a great deal of vanishing species and of the dis-couraging side of the matter, while far less has been said about the increaseof certain species of our most familiar birds, which can be still further augmentedby a little care. We cannot prevent, if we would, the trend of civilization that drains andreclaims the marshes and swampy woods dear to the water-fowl and so-calledshore-birds. We cannot check, or even guide, the over-thrifty forestry that doesaway with the moss-grown stumps—picturesque in their decay,—and fills upwith cement every crack or knot-hole suitable for Owl, Chickadee, Nuthatch,or Woodpecker; but there are a dozen birds still abundant upon which we dependf

Note About Images