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TERNS, CORMORANTS, AND PELICANS ON KLAMATH LAKE, OREGON 



This huge lake with its stretches of tule islands, was made a bird reservation eight years ago 



and is now the home of great colonies of pelicans, gulls, cormorants, and terns, with ducks, 



geese, and many other birds. The great blue herons build their platform nests over 



an area of several acres; the pelicans, once near extermination in this region 



owing to the quill hunters, now sit in rows, hutidreds together, and view 



with calmness the close approach of the Audubon patrol boat. 



Western grebes were once so nearly exterminated that they are 



not /iiimerous even yet, after eight years of prolecUion 



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