Identifier: birdlore19nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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MRS. MARY S. SAGE, SCHOOL LECTURER FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (429) 430 Bird-Lore group of the states best women took the organizer through the driving rainof an equinoctial storm, over slippery unsteady plank roads, to the schoolsin the logging-camps of the Grays Harbor region. When the schools of Moclipsand Pacific, on the very western rim of the continent, pledged themselves towork for bird welfare, it seemed somehow a sacred, sacrificial thing that theseboys and girls, so remote from Audubon headquarters, should unite themselvesas a final link in one of its chains for the protection of wild life.
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FEEDING FRIENDLY FINCHES.Photographed at Aberdeen, Washington, by Mrs. Granville R. Pike. Prominently among our bird mercies we reckon the fact that our Governor,our State Superintendent of Schools, and our State Game Warden have eachgiven their personal and official encouragement to the cause of the birds andhave aided in the making of bird-exhibits which have formed an importantpart of our educational activity this year. In addition, all the educational forces of the state are turning their attention,in increased measure, to bird-conservation. Our higher institutions of learningare putting considerable emphasis on bird-study, and our public schools aregiving more time to this phase of nature instruction than formerly. Seattlehad a notable Bird Day this year, and many other schools observed the dayworthily. Where, heretofore, the solitary bird-student pursued his lonely way, there Reports of Field Agents 431 are indications of developing community interest in birds. The remarkablegro

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