BIRD ROCK 
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y F as a result of a conference be- 
tween the birds and the Audubon 
Society a home were to be selected 
which should prove a secure re- 
treat for certain of the feathered 
kind, I imagine that Bird Rock, 
' in its primal condition, would 
have ate filled the requirements set forth by 
both conferees. 
With precipitous, rocky walls weathered into 
innumerable ledges, shelves, and crevices—all fit 
nesting sites—one might think of it as a colossal 
lodging house for the countless sea-bird tenants who 
find here not only a suitable place for the reproduc- 
tion of their young, but in the surrounding waters 
an abundant and unfailing supply of food. Add 
to these conditions the Rock’s isolation and inac- 
cessibility, its shoreless outline, and the difficulty 
with which it may be ascended, and we have indeed 
an ideal refuge for sea fowl, one in which, unless 
they were subjected to special persecution, they 
might have continued to exist for centuries, had not 
the transforming influences of civilization reached 
even to this isle of the sea. 
Bird Rock is about fifty miles northwest of Cape 
Breton, the nearest mainland, and twelve east of 
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