BIRD RESERVATIONS 



63. Petit Bois Island, Ala. and Miss 



64. Anaho Island, Nevada. 



65. Smith Island, Wash. . 



66. Ediz Hook, Wash. . . 



67. Dungeness Spit, Wash. 



68. Big Lake, Arkansas . 



69. Goat Island, California 



70. North Platte, Nebraska 



DATE OF 

 ESTABLISHMENT 



May 6, 1913 

 Sept. 4, 1 913 



June 6, 1914 



Jan. 20, 191 5 



Jan. 20, 191 5 



Aug. 2, 1915 



Aug. 9, 1916 



Aug. 21, 1916 



Audubon Society Reservations. — It may be noted 

 from this list that there are no Government bird 

 reservations in the original thirteen colonies. The 

 reason is that there are no Government waste lands 

 -containing bird colonies in these states. To protect 

 the colony-breeding birds found there other means 

 were necessary. The Audubon Society employs an- 

 nually about sixty agents to guard in summer the 

 more important groups of water birds along the 

 Atlantic Coast and about some of the lakes of the 

 interior. Water-bird colonies are usually situated 

 on islands where the birds are comparatively free 

 from the attacks of natural enemies; hence the ques- 

 tion of guarding them resolves itself mainly into the 

 question of keeping people from disturbing the birds 

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