Bird lore - Project Puffin

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary
Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to
the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City.
William Dutchee, President
Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary
Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer
Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney
Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become
a member of it, and all are welcome. . r » r-u
Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild
Birds and Animals:
$S annually pays for a Sustaining Membership
$100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership
Si ,000 constitutes a person a Patron
$S,ooo constitutes a person a Founder
$25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor
Form or Bequest:—I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon
Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York.
THE YEAR'S JUNIOR AUDUBON RESULTS
The fiscal year of the Junior Educa-
tional Department of the Association
closed on June i, 1916. The organization
of children into bird-study classes shows,
as heretofore, a satisfactory increase; the
number paying fees and joining these
clubs during the past year having increased
about 25 per cent over the preceding twelve
months.
This work had the support of $5,000
from Mrs. Russell Sage, and $20,000 from
an unnamed benefactor. We were able to
have a larger field-force lecturing to the
schools, and organizing bird-clubs, than
at any time in the past. Mrs Granville
Pike represented the Association in the
State of Washington; Mrs. Etta S. Wil-
son was our representative in Indiana;
and Doctor Eugene Swope continued his
endeavors in Ohio. Others in the field
were Mrs. Mary Sage, Mrs. G. M.
Turner, and Mr. Harold K. Decker in New
York; Miss Katharine H. Stuart in
Virginia and Maryland; and H. R. Pat-
tengill in Michigan. Several of the State
Audubon Societies cooperated in this
work; the most active ones being those of
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
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During the spring, there was an unusual
number of bird-box-building contests
entertainments both indoors and in the
open, and special programs and local
work of various characters that attracted
the attention of the communities.
An example of the general enthusiasm
among Juniors if the Euclid Club, in
Washington. Last season it studied in-
doors 24 kinds of birds, and did much welldirected
outdoor seeing and thinking. A
bird-census was made, one girl showing the
class 44 of the 218 occupied nests discovered.
The club has its program-committee
who plan songs, recitations, and
talks on birds. Once, every member was
to name his favorite bird, and to tell why
it was his favorite; another time they
were to tell an interesting fact concerning
birds. The mothers are so interested that
they frequently entertain the club.
There has never been a time when the
Junior work claimed so much attention in
the public press as during the past year.
The reception which the Junior Class idea
has received from educators, women's
clubs, the boy scouts, and other organi-
zations, has been a source of continued
pleasure to those responsible for the work.
Scores of photographs of happy-faced