BIRD RESERVATIONS 



NO. 



NAME 



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 Lalce, Arkansas 



69. Goat Island, California 



70. North Platte, Nebraska 



DATE OF 

 ESTABLISHMENT 



May 6, 1913 

 Sept. 4, 1913 



June 6, 1914 



Jan. 20, 1915 



Jan. 20, 191 5 



Aug. 2, 191 5 



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 Auduboii 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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