Identifier: birdlore161914nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Audubon Societies 23s meetings, and planning for bird-studyand bird-protection. Only workers can bein this class, and the members themselvesmade a rule that three unexcused absencesfrom meetings cause one to lose his orher membership. During the past winter we studiedhabits and characteristics of birds, sothat as the spring came we might appre-ciate and help them. Our meetings areheld once a week after school at the school-house, and once a month in the eveningat the home of a member. Miss Eddy, three distinct Junior Audubon classeshave been organized in School No. 11 inthat city; and they now have a combinedmembership of more than one hundredpupils. Meetings are held regularly, in whichbird-charts are kept, recording the timeand place of birds first seen. Familycharacteristics are studied; also the habits,nests, food, etc., of individual birds, withparticular stress on their usefulness. Waysand means of attracting bird-neighborsare discussed. Many bird-houses have
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BOYS OF JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASS, No. 732, AT FLINT, MICHIGAN another high-school teacher, is a member,and helps with the work. We all plan totake early-morning walks together soon,and all look forward with much pleasureto them. Some of the most enjoyableevents of my life have been with youngpeople out in the field, watching bird-life and listening to bird-music. The Class in Flint, Michigan, is solarge that it required two pictures tocarry all the portraits; the one printedshows that the Flint boys and girls, ledby G. E. Sherman, are ingenious archi-tects in the small, as artists say. Passaic, New Jersey, is evidently anAudubonian stronghold, for we learn that been built, with quite as much diversityas to size and architecture as may beseen in human habitations. Mr. Kip, ofPassaic, has given the boys and girlspermission to use a ten-acre wood-lotfor their bird-houses. The principal ofthe school purposes to have each of thetwelve school-rooms put up a bird-housein the trees on the school-

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