Bird lore - Project Puffin

Annual Report of the National Association of
Audubon Societies for 1916
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
CONTENTS
Introduction.— Affiliated Societies.—Bird Clubs.— Junior Audubon Societies.—Summer
Schools.— Legislation.— Field Agents. — Warden
Work.— Lists of Wardens.—Miscellaneous Facts.— Finances.
REPORTS OF FIELD AGENTS.
Winthrop Packard.— Dr. Eugene Swope.—Miss Katharine H. Stuart.—
Mrs. W. T. Wilson.— William L. Finley.— Mrs. Mary S. Sage, Organizer.—Herbert
K. Job, Applied Ornithology.
REPORTS OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES, AND OF BIRD CLUBS.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, East Tennessee,
Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina.
AFFILIATED CLUBS: Beaver, Pa.; Long Island, N. Y.; Meriden, Conn.;
Brookline, Mass.; Budd Lake, N. J.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Cocoanut Grove,
Fla.; Columbus, Ohio; Cumberland, Md.; Doylestown, Pa.; Fitchburg,
Mass.; Forest Hills Gardens, N. Y.; Groton, Mass.; Hartford, Conn.;
Meriden, N. H.; Michigan City, Ind.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Rock Island,
III.; Rumson, N. J.; Seattle, Wash.; Sewickley, Pa.; Somerset Hills, N.
J.; Utica, N. Y.; Vassar College, N. Y.; Vermilion, S. D.; Washington
Federation; Watertown, N. Y.; Winston-Salem, N. C; Wyncote, Pa.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER.
LISTS OF MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS.
Benefactor, Founder, and Patrons.— Life Members.— Annual Members
AND General Contributors.— Contributors to the Department of
Applied Ornithology.— Contributors to the Egret Fund.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY
INTRODUCTION
The movement for bird-protection as distinguished from game-protection
is rapidly becoming a mighty factor in our American hfe. Game-protection is
based in the last analysis on two principles, the one as a source of food-supply,
the other as recreational shooting. Both these are entirely legitimate, but are
readily perverted for selfish personal advantages whereby an individual or an
organization may secure an excessive portion of the public supply of useful
game-birds. Bird-protection rests on an entirely different foundation. It
seeks to preserve and increase the wild bird-life for its economic value to the
trees, the flowers, and the crops. It wants to fill the lawns, gardens, and forests
with song and beauty, and thus add to the esthetic influences of human life.
It seeks ever to build up and not to destroy, to teach a softening and not a
hardening of man's feelings, to give hfe rather than to take life.
While recognizing the gains in human strength and pecuniary profit
accruing from field-sports with dogs and gun, and while never seeking to cur-
tail these, unless some hunted species is threatened with undue depletion in
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