CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 



MAKING GROUNDS ATTRACTIVE TO BIRDS 



Joseph H. Dodson 

 FIG. 242. Grounds that are attractive to birds. 



WITHIN the last few years appreciation of birds has 

 led to efforts to protect them and enable them to increase 

 in number. The United States Government has given 

 the birds about seventy islands, lakes, and other bird 

 reserves, for their exclusive use, so that they may rear 

 their young unmolested, and the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies guards with paid agents over one 

 hundred of the most important breeding colonies of 

 birds in the United States. In addition, private citizens 

 have appropriated large tracts of land for the use of 

 wild birds, and the grounds about thousands of homes 

 have been made more pleasant by. making them attrac- 

 tive to the feathered songsters. 



Houses, food, drink, and safety for birds. Even in 

 small yards, boxes or houses can be put up for birds to 



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