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some forests for the beasts and birds, some swamps for the wild fowl, some 
prairie for the wild flowers. | 
“It sometimes seems from the way people treat this beautiful earth, as 
if they expected the end of the world to come shortly, perhaps in the year 
2000. On the contrary, scientists tell us that the earth should remain 
habitable for man for twelve thousand million years! What, unless we 
mend our ways, will there be left of interest and variety, of beauty and 
unspoiled wilderness, in that inconceivably long stretch of years to come?” 
(p. 154 of The Watcher at the Nest.) 
Information on the former status of these diminishing species was 
largely obtained from Ford, Sanborn and Coursen’s “Birds of the Chicago 
Region,” published in 1934: 
CONTRIBUTING CONTRIBUTING 
CAUSES OF CAUSES OF 
SCARCITY SCARCITY 
Destruc- Destruc- 
tion of tion of 
Species Shooting Habitat Species Shooting Habitat 
Common Loon...... X Wilson’s Phalarope. xX 
Eared Grebe....... xX All (Owls... sees xX xX 
Great Blue Heron.. X x Whip-poor-will xX 
Canada Goose..... x xX Kingfishera?,. ae xX xX 
Snow and Blue Geese X x Pileated Woodpecker X xX 
Ade uck saepesee eee x xX Eastern Kingbird .. ? 
WANG teen us xX Phoebe ........... x 
Hawks. tet roe x x Least Flycatcher... x 
Ruffed Grouse ..... Kaen Manel apne oes = 
Prairie Chicken.... X R baer tea 
: Blackbird ican xX 
BOpWHIthe srt neue xX xX , 
eenanilec Leconte’s Sparrow... xX 
oa rane.... X x Nelson’s Sparrow... xX 
NNOGGCOC| tener ed Xx X Lark Sparrow...... ” 
Uplandguloverrn sae xX X Chipping Sparrow.. Xx 
Buff-breasted Harris’s Sparrow .. i 
Sandpiper ..... xX x Migrant Shrike.... xX 
Chicago, Illinois 
ft Et Et 
Winter Birds 
There was no covert for the birds 
And yet I heard them sing 
As joyously as if the trees 
Were canopied with spring. 
And though the way is still obscure 
That you and I must go, 
Yet all my hopes, like winter birds, 
Sing on amid the snow. 
—ELINOR MACARTHUR 
