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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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mp I esti-mate there are 40,000 Canvasbacks; andon the Louisiana State Game Preserve andLake Fearman, and on the North andSouth lakes, vast numbers of Canvasbacks,Scaups, Baldpates and Gadwalls. Tealare everywhere, and the present winterhas shown a greater wild-fowl populationon the Louisiana refuges than ever before. ii8 Bird - Lore THE AMSTON EXPERIMENT STATION Readers of Bird-Lore, and of the AnnualReport of the National Association, areaware that Mr. Charles M. Ams has ac-quired an immense tract of virtually wildland in eastern Connecticut, and has fittedup in one of the lakes within it a modelbreeding-place for wild ducks to be cul-tivated in captivity. Mr. Ams has now portance. The planting of food-bearingvegetation will be carried out in a way toteach the public what and how to plant.For beginning the propagation of wildwater-fowl an ideal small pond and adjoin-ing swamp- and grass-land have been en-closed with a seven-foot, vermin-prooffence. A water-fowl breeding-house out in
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SCENE IN THE GLASS BREEDING-HOUSE AT AMSTON When this photograph was taken, ten species of Ducks were swimming about in comfort, although the temperature outside was 15° below zero declared the entire tract a wild-life sanc-tuary, and has posted it accordingly. Fur-ther, he has signed an agreement giving theNational Association of Audubon Societiesfull use of the property as a sanctuary andexperiment station under the oversight ofHerbert K. Job. Mr. Ams pays all expensesfor work mutually agreed upon, and pro-vides the necessary labor, including theservices of an expert game-keeper. At the Experiment Station nesting andfeeding devices will be placed with a viewof collecting various data of practical im- the pond, with glass front, comprising aswimming-pool and float, has been con-structed, and the breeding stock alreadyobtained has wintered finely. It consistsof most of the more important and valuablespecies of North American wild Ducks, andsome other water-birds. Unusual facili-ties

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