Bird lore - Project Puffin

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on. 'Sportsmen' drive along the unfrequented roads in their automobiles,
and when they sight any birds shoot them if they can and drive away. This
type of poacher is the most difficult to catch and deal with.
The Legislative Committee of the Club has done its part in opposing bad
and aiding good legislation at the State House. Two members of the Club
have appeared at various hearings before the Committee on Fisheries and
Game to express the feelings of the Club on all proposed legislation. Whenever
it was felt that the Club could aid in the conservation work at Washington,
our representatives in the House and Senate have been communi-
cated with.
The directors expect to publish, in a few months, a report of the work of
the Club since its beginning. This will contain articles of interest to other bird-
clubs and students. Details and plans for bird-exhibitions will be given, sug-
gestions for the proper conducting of club-walks, original field-work with
children, and such other matters as pertain to the welfare and success of similar
bird clubs. Charles B. Floyd, President.
Budd Lake (N. J.) Nature-Study Club.— Our Club, which now numbers
eighteen, and has a membership in the National Association, has been active
for bird-protection. We have made a careful study of local birds, and have
taken weekly walks to observe them. We have published articles about birds
in Newark papers, and we have encouraged groups of children to build birdhouses,
and have given of our funds to promote this enterprise. Several members
of the Club have collected old bird-nests for schools, and for the Newark
Public Library. We have endorsed and circulated every legislative petition
sent to us, and we have written in response to every request of the National
Association; and any line of work you may suggest we will take up cheerfully
and energetically.— (Mrs.) M. L. Cox, Secretary.
Buffalo (N. Y.) Audubon Society.—This Society was organized May, 1909,
to be of service in bird-protection and bird-study. We have 260 members.
When we organized, two-thirds of our members had practically no knowledge of
bird-life; today they are all actively engaged in bird-study. We have educated
our members to take great interest in advancing good legislation, and when the
call for assistance comes, as it has twice of late, first, in preventing spring shooting,
and, second, in saving the Lake Malheur Reservation, many of our mem-
bers write at once to our legislator and influence their friends to write.
The past year we had before the spring migration a course of six study
classes, where practical, helpful papers were given, followed by full discussion.
Many of our members have become members of the Natural Science Society
and hear weekly lectures by the finest speakers.
This Society has pubhshed annually for three years a Bird Almanac—
fourth is under way. The Almanac last year netted $183, but we are equally
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