Our Native Birds

Excerpt from Our Native Birds: How to Protect Them and Attract Them to Our Homes In the following pages an effort has been made to point out several means for bird protection which cannot be embodied in legal enactments. We are always ready to pass a law against an evil, but too often we provide insufficient means to carry out and enforce the provisions of the law. This, I regret to state, is the greatest obstacle to the effective legal protection of song birds, game birds, and mammals. If the friends of birds and nature do not tire in the good work of educating the young of the nation on these subjects, the time will come when game wardens will have much less to do than now. Education works slow, but it is effective. My thanks are due to Mr. William T. Hornaday for permission to quote from his most interesting and valuable report on "The Destruction of our Birds and Mammals" made to the New York Zoological Society, and published by that society in its second annual report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Presents the songs and calls of fifty North American birds that are common to residential settings, city parks, and urban areas.