Identifier: birdlore151913nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ir quill feathers and with the still unfledged youngbecome extremely helpless. At this time, myriads of other Geese are in thesame condition, and the Esquimos made a practice of setting up long lines ofstrong fish-nets on the tundras to form pound-traps, or enclosures with widewings leading to them, into which thousands were driven and killed for food.The slaughter in this way was very great, for the young were killed at thesame time and thrown away in order to get them out of the way of thenext drive. The Esquimos of this region also gather large numbers of eggs ofthe breeding waterfowl for food and, with the demand for them at themining camps of the North, a serious menance to the existence of these andother waterfowl might ensue. Fortunately, in 1909, President Roosevelt made a bird-reservation cover-ing the delta of the Yukon and the tundra to the southward, which includesthe main breeding-ground of the Emperor Goose, and thus took a long steptoward perpetuating this fine bird. *f
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