OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WISCONSIN AND ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETIES. 
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Published by the Wisconsin Audubon Society at Appleton, Wisconsin 
Entered as second class matter, May 16, 1904, at Appleton, Wis., under the act of Congress of Mar, 3. ’79. 
VOL. XI. " MARCH, 1909. No. 9 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUDUBON MOVEMENT. 
The history of bird protection in this 
country may be divided into two cycles, 
the first covering the years from 1880- 
1896, and the 
second from 1896 
to the present 
time. About 30 
years ago nature 
lovers began to 
feel uneasy. Up 
to that time the 
birds, by attend¬ 
ing strietlv to 
the business of 
rais i n g their 
fa.mi lies had 
managed to hold 
their own, al¬ 
though bovs and 
me n w aged 
ceaseless war up¬ 
on them. It was 
when gentle 
woman joined 
the ranks of their 
enemies, slaying 
tens of thou¬ 
sands where men 
had been content 
with thousands, 
that they saw 
themselves 
doomed to de¬ 
struction. Just 
then the breasts 
ami wings of 
Swallows be¬ 
came fashion¬ 
able, and in 1884 
someone had the brilliant idea of going 
to the nesting colonies of the Terns, on 
the islands along the Atlantic coast, and 
forthwith began the gruesome business 
of extermination, not in this country 
only, but all over the world. At this 
time one ship¬ 
ment from Arch¬ 
angel, Russia, 
contained ten 
tons of wings. 
Today the small 
remnant of our 
once countless 
throngs of Terns 
and gulls is be¬ 
ing carefully 
guarded bv war¬ 
dens who are 
paid from a fund 
raised by Abbot 
Thaver, the art- 
ist. Poets and 
artists have al- 
wavs fought on 
the side of the 
birds. 
In 1884 the 
American Orni¬ 
thologists Union 
bestirred itself, 
appointing a 
com m i 11 e e to 
work for bird 
protection, and, 
at the same time, 
taking a step 
w h i c h h a s 
p r o v e d f a r - 
reaching in its 
results. This 
was the presen¬ 
tation of a memorial to Congress, which 
resulted in the establishment of the Bio¬ 
logical Survey, the great practical and 
