The Audubon Societies 



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Black-crowned N ii^lit Heron - 



Islands 4 and 5, Morgan Harbor 200 

 Dutcher's Island 20 



220 

 Louisiana Heron — 



Battledore 200 



Dulcher's Island 2,500 



Islands 4 and 5, Morgan Harbori,20o 

 Islands 6 to 9, Morgan Harbors, 000 



8,900 

 H. H. KoPMAN, Field Agent. 



Inspection of East Timbalier Reservation, 

 Louisiana, Augusts, 1908 



Black Skimmer. — Though adults of 

 this species, numbering fully 7,500, were 

 present on the island, not a single young 

 bird was found, and the nests during the 

 latter part of the season, at least, had 

 evidently been disturbed. 



Laughing Gull. — At least :;5,ooo birds 

 of this species were present, and a large 

 proportion of these were young, just 

 learning to fly. The crowding of the nests 

 and the abundance of the young were 

 almost incredible. 



Louisiana Heron. — Nearly all of this 

 species had left, but former warden, 

 W. H. Oliver, told me that a very large 

 number of this species had been bred on 

 the island, probably as many as 10,000. 



Royal Tern. — About 1,000 adults and 

 a few young on the beach almost ready 

 to fly were noted. 



Least Tern. — A few were seen about 

 the island, and Mr. Oliver was sure the 

 species had bred there. 



Snowy Heron. — About ten were seen 

 on the island; and Mr. Oliver reported 

 chat about forty of this species, as well 

 as some of the Black-crowned Night 

 Heron had been bred there. 



Brown Pelican. — A large number — ■ 

 1,500 to 1,800 — were feeding on the spits 

 and bars. None had nested on the island. 

 — H. H. Kop.\i.\x, Field .\gent. 



Three New Reservations 



During llic month of .\ugust. President 

 Roosevelt, at the request of this Associa- 

 tion, issued orders establishing three new 

 reservations; one to be known as the Key 

 West Reservation, the application for which 

 was based upon a report made by Capt. 

 Charles G. Johnson, keeper of the Sand 

 Key Light Station, near Key West, Florida. 



The applications for the Klamath Lake 

 and Lake Malheur Reservations were 

 based on the reports of our field agent, 

 Mr. William L. Finley, and his associate, 

 Mr. Herman T. Bohlman, a portion of 

 which was published in Bird-Lore, vol. 

 viii, 1905, page 336 and the result of a 

 trip they made during the present season 

 as the representatives of this Association. 



"Our start was made from Portland, 

 Oregon, and the entire trip between that 

 city and the Malheur Lake region was 

 made by automobile, over a thousand 

 miles being covered during the trip. This 

 was necessary, as the lake is 135 miles 

 from the nearest railroad station. A can- 

 vas boat was used on the lake, as it is 

 very shallow, the average depth being 

 not over three feet. This region, beyond 

 question, is the most promising of the 

 known fields for the protection and preser- 

 vation of water-fowl and several other 

 birds, that exist in the United States. The 

 water surface in the proposed reservation 

 covers an area of about 120 square miles. 

 Many thousands of water- and shore-birds 

 breed annually, and countless other 

 thousands, including swans, use the lakes 

 as resting- and feeding-places during the 

 spring and fall migrations. Among the 

 breeding birds are Canada Geese, of 

 which over a thousand young birds were 

 counted within the distance of one mile 

 along the shore, many species of Wild 

 Ducks, Ring-billed, California and other 

 Gulls, White Pelican, Farallone Cor- 

 morant, Caspian, Black and Forster's 

 Terns, Eared Grebe, White-faced Glossy 

 Ibis, Great Blue and Night Herons, Coot, 

 and many smaller shore-birds. Many 

 large colonies of the species named were 

 ciiscovered. 



