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Identifier: birdlore111909nati (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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es under their control. The Pinnated Grouse, orHeath Hen, has nearly doubled in numbers there since the work of protectingthem on this tract was begun two years ago. The birds were seriously threatenedby fire, in the nesting season; but the fire was stopped near the boundaries ofthe reservation, and did very little, if any, injury to the birds. Broods of youngbirds have been seen, and the probability is that there will be a good increasethere this year. Dr. Field, Chairman of the Commission, however, believes thatthere is an excess of male birds among the adults, and this, if true, will tend tocheck the increase. The colonies of Least Terns, on which a report was made last year, seem to beholding their own on Marthas Vineyard; and, from all the reports received,the Common and Roseate Terns and Laughing Gulls breeding on the islandsoff the southeastern coast of Massachusetts are doing well. During this trip,an example of the value of protecting wild-fowl in spring was seen. A gentleman
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Report of Field Agents 301 who has control of the greater part of a large pond allows no shooting there duringthe spring, although he shoots some there during the fall. Early in August,fully seventy-five Black Ducks were seen around this pond, most of which wereraised in the marshes bordering it. During a little more than two weeks spent in Maine, in an attempt to interestsome of the summer residents in the work of the National Association, your agentfound the different species of Gulls and Terns, which are protected there, verynumerous along the Maine coast. EDUCATIONAL WORK During the holidays of 1908, an exhibit was made by the National Associationand the Massachusetts Audubon Society at the Boston Sportsmens Show.This attracted a great deal of attention, interested many sportsmen in our work,and was the means of somewhat increasing the membership of both Associations.This exhibit lasted two weeks. The greater part of the educational work for the year has been conductedby means of

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