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Identifier: birdlore81906nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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New Jersey, two wardens were employed to guard the only coloniesof Laughing Gulls left in the state. The total result for the season wasprobably not over 1,500 young birds, as a storm tide destroyed all of the firstlaying at the Stone Harbor colony. Notwithstanding all the efforts of thisAssociation to give protection, Terns seem to have abandoned the NewJersey coast as a breeding-place. There may be a few individuals breedingsbut no colonies still exist. In Virginia, seven wardens were employed, all on the Eastern Shore.This is a large territory covering many scores of square miles of beach, saltmarsh and interlacing tide creeks. It is a physical impossibility for the Reservations 243 wardens to exercise more than a superficial oversight in this great territory.That these guards are doing good there is no doubt, both in the actualprotection to breeding birds and also as object lessons to the residents of thedistrict. To make an accurate estimate of the annual increase is impossible,
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YOUNG HERRING GULLPhotographed by H. K. Job, at No Mans Land Island, Mass. as the territory is too large ; only the general result can be seen. There isno doubt about the increase in Laughing Gulls, Common and ForstersTerns, and Black Skimmers, but such species as Oyster-catchers, Willet,Wilsons Plover, Gull-billed and Royal Terns are only holding their own.When a species gets reduced below a certain point in a locality, it seemsalmost impossible to prevent its gradual disappearance. Clapper Rails are notincreasing, owing to three reasons: first, storm tides during the breedingseason; second, the exceedingly wasteful practice of egging, and lastly, ex-cessive shooting. The storm tides cannot be prevented, therefore it is 244 Bird- Lore important that the causes of decrease under the control of man shouldcease. There are two very small colonies of Least Tern (Little Strikers),in this district, probably not over IOO pairs. The only other colonies of thisspecies known on the Atlantic coa

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