Canada Geese Feeding in a Green Field 



Photo by S. J. Wigley 



How to Study the Game Birds 



Probably no other phase of conservation is more important 

 than that of protecting those birds and animals, hunted from 

 earliest times because of their value as food. The hunters have 

 seen many species become extinct before the muzzles of their 

 thousands of guns and, learning wisdom before it is entirely too 

 late, they have made laws to prevent the extermination of those 

 species that still persist. No more important work can be given 

 to pupils in seventh and eighth grades and junior high school than 

 the attaining of knowledge of these creatures and the laws which 

 protect them. Such study widens the pupils intelligence and 

 interests and also makes for good citizenship and obedience to law. 



The Most Common Game Birds 



These belong chiefly to three orders of birds, the ducks and 

 geese, the shore birds and the scratching birds. 



Wild Ducks 

 The ducks are separated into two subfamilies, the River and Pond 

 Ducks and the Bay and Sea Ducks which are distinguished from 

 each other by the simple structural character that the former 



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