T^! Game Breeder 



VOLUME II 



JANUARY, J9J3 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 4 



Report of the National Association of 



Audubon Societies. 



The eighth annual report of the Na- 

 tional Association of Audubon Societies 

 is interesting and instructive. The 

 cover is adorned with a very pretty 

 photograph of a little girl with a lap 

 full of young quail. 



The secretary of the association says 

 the eighth year of the life of the asso- 

 ciation has been attended with a strong 

 continuance of that rapid growth which 

 has ever marked its history. Eight 

 assistants are now needed to handle 

 the oftice work and forty-one wardens 

 are employed to guard from feather- 

 hunters and eggers the colonies of wa- 

 ter-birds threatened with extinction. 

 The birds in most of the colonies have 

 had a prosperous year despite the 

 starvation of young on some of the 

 Maine islands, due to the failure of 

 food-supply, and the loss of eggs and 

 young in some of the Southern heron 

 colonies, caused by wind-storms. The 

 birds which are primarily receiving the 

 benefit of ' the wardens' watchfulness 

 are : White and brown pelicans, her- 

 ring, western and laughing gulls, com- 

 mon, Arctic, Caspian, royal, cabots 

 and least terns, puffins, cormorants. 

 guillemt)ts, egrets and other herons ; 

 grebes, gallinules, rails, geese and va- 

 rious species of ducks. The secretary 

 estimates that from one to two million 

 birds inhabited the protected areas 

 during the past year. 



It is interesting to sportsmen to 

 learn that the breeding places of some 

 of the wild food birds are protected. 

 Since these birds are migratory they 

 will continue to afford sport and food 

 for those who cnjov wild-fowHnu'. 



The .Audubons will be interested to 

 learn that millions of upland game 



birds now are given practical pro- 

 tection by members of the Game Con- 

 servation Society and readers of "The 

 Game Breeder." While the Audubon 

 Association saves many sporting birds 

 on areas devoted to the practical pro- 

 tec4;ion of pelicans, gulls, herons and 

 terns, the Game Conservation Society 

 saves thousands of song and insecti- 

 vorous birds on reservations devoted 

 to the practical protection of upland 

 game. The two associations work in 

 perfect harmony. Many millions of 

 land and water birds are safely hatched 

 and reared every year. 



Reports of Field Agents. 



Not the least interesting matter in 

 the Audubon Association's report is 

 the reports of the field agents. For- 

 bush, of New England ; Katherine H. 

 Stuart, of Virginia ; James H. Rice, 

 Jr., of South Carolina; Francis Har- 

 per, O'Kefenoke Swamp, Georgia ; Dr. 

 Eugene Swope, Ohio ; Jefferson But- 

 ler, Michigan ; W'm. Lovell Finley, Pa- 

 cific Coast States ; G. Willett, St. La- 

 zaria Reservation, Alaska, have inter- 

 esting reports about the conditions in 

 their localities and about the work be- 

 ing done. 



Duck Shooting for Road-Houses. 



The Audubon field agent for Michi- 

 gan says : The first work of your 

 field agent was to investigate reports 

 that came in last winter, as they had 

 in former winters, that wild ducks 

 were shot at the air-holes in the ice 

 in Lake Erie, the Detroit River, Lake 

 St. Clair, and the St. Clair River, and 

 disposed of to hotels and road-houses 

 along the Detroit River. These road- 

 houses make a specialty of providing 

 game out f)f season. Our game-ward- 



