THE WAY TO STUDY BIRDS 



practical. The educational consists in circu- 

 lating literature relating to birds in the school or 

 other organizations and particularly in driving 

 home the need of protection to the youth of the 

 country who are not yet prejudiced and who do 

 not still believe that "the only good Hawk's a 

 dead Hawk." The societies can do a great deal, 

 but this does not mean that the individual should 

 lie quietly back and omit an opportunity for 

 personal effort. 



The practical field is that of legislation and 

 warden work. First the bills must be con- 

 structed, entered and pushed thru the legislature. 

 But the work only begins here, for surely a law 

 might just as well be off the statute books as 

 to be unenforced. And yet without warden 

 service that is in many cases precisely the status 

 of affairs. Important colonies of near-extinct 

 birds, rookeries of Egrets and haunts of valuable 

 insectivorous species must be carefully patrolled 

 and protected from the gun of the game-hog, 

 the milliners* representative or the over-zealous 

 collector or oologist. This is the practical field of 

 bird protection. 



Preservation: Bird preservation means to me 

 one and only one thing: The bettering of the 

 chances of our birds to live in safety and to 

 increase. It consists of the establishment of 

 either governmental, state or private game re- 

 servations, where the game is killed only on a 

 legitimate and sane basis, so that it may increase, 

 and the insurance of safety for the non-game 

 birds. It means also the aid of nesting boxes in 

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