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Identifier: birdlore19nati (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

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and a geyser of black loam,and away would go the poor bird to circle in the blue for perhaps ten minutes,and then pitch down in front of me again, to repeat the same performance asanother shell would land near him almost immediately. Meanwhile an unruffled Cuckoo called continuously in some nearby pol-lard willows, and Larks (Crested Larks, very much like Sky-larks) rose oneafter the other, sometimes from the close vicinity of a bursting shell, singingserenely as if there was nothing to mar a perfect day. My friend, MC. de B. Green, who is driving an ambulance for the Frenchin the Vosges, tells me the same indifference to shell-fire exists in the birds ofthat region, and with a corresponding scarcity of game. Wild boar howeverare apparently on the increase. He also made the discovery of a new enemy to bird-life, although he hadsuspected its existence for some years past. This is the large slug of these parts,which destroys a large proportion of the eggs of ground and low-nesting small
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(.^) 4 Bird - Lore birds. It took him some time to get suflficient evidence, but it is pretty nearly-conclusive. Of six Nightingales nests he had under observation, only oneescaped the slugs, and this was on account of its unusually high position. While living on Queen Charlotte Island, B.C., some years ago, he suspectedthe large slug of those parts of similar depredations. This would indicate howmuch we have to learn in our efforts to protect birds. Few people in America realize what a very small proportion of the destruc-tion of bird-life—-especially small-bird-life—is due to human agency, and howfutile is the effort which is solely directed against the small boy, the sportsman,and the collector, as the only enemies of birds. One has to go to England, withits teeming wealth of bird-life, to see what intelligent preservation and pro-tection can really accomphsh. A feature that strikes one over here, both in France and England, is theimmense amount of cover for birds, and also the

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