Reports of Field Agents 



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where the most careful attention is due. Since the cessation of spring shooting, 

 which has endured for about twenty years, Black Ducks have increased greatly, 

 and these fine birds are again breeding throughout the state in large numbers 

 and in places where they had long been banished as breeding birds. 



Various breeding-places of the Wood Duck are yearly coming to light, and 

 other species of Ducks are now found breeding, which were previously unknown, 

 or only to be found in remote parts of the state. It is gratifying to be able to 

 report the discovery of a heretofore unknown colony of considerable size of 

 Great Blue and Black-crowned Night Herons on the coast, which is in good 

 condition. The conditions existing in this state today show that the prophecy 

 of twenty years ago, that the regulations now in force would do much to restore 

 the then rapidly diminishing wild birds, is being realized in an absolutely 

 conclusive manner. 



REPORT OF MARY S. SAGE, FIELD AGENT 

 FOR LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



To show the work done on Long Island during the past year, I will quote 

 from the annual report of the Bird Club of Long Island, Mrs. Richard Derby 

 (Ethel Roosevelt), Secretary: 



"During the months of the school year of 1Q19-20 Mrs. Sage spoke to more 



MRS. MARY b. bAGE, FIELD AGE.N 1 1 ■ 1: L' ','. l-l..\:.b, AND HER CAR PRESENTED BY 

 THE BIRD CLUB OF LONG ISLAND 



