Bird lore - Project Puffin

The National Park Service
One of the bills that will come before
Congress this winter will be for the very
commendable purpose of establishing a
bureau under the Department of the
Interior to have charge of the twelve
National Parks, and about thirty National
Monuments, that have been established
up to the present time.
The work of Enos Mills in getting
National Parks created, and the efforts of
Frank Bond in securing the establishment
of National Monuments, bid fair
to bear fruit in the form of the creation of
the bureau indicated above.
At the present time the management of
the two groups of government reserva-
tions is under separate heads, and separate
appropriations are made for their main-
tenance. It is understood that Secretary
Lane greatly favors this proposal to
Congress, and the National Association
of Audubon Societies is actively working
for the consummation of the plan. It
may be remarked in passing that we also
heartily endorse Mr. Mills's latest plan
for having the Grand Canyon in Colorado
made a National Park. We greatly favor
this for many reasons, not the least of
which is that every National Park is, in
the strictest sense, also a bird-reservation.
To Junior Audubon Classes of
Connecticut
The Junior Audubon work has grown to
such an extent in Connecticut that it is
impossible for the School Secretary to
write personal letters to all of you. No
doubt the seven thousand boys and girls
of the state who joined the Junior Audubon
Classes last spring are still inter-
ested. Do you know that by renewing
your membership now you will receive a
new set of leaflets, several of which will be
of especial interest in the study of our
winter friends? Last spring communica-
tion between a number of our Junior
Classes was established, and we should like
to see this work extended during the year.
Will such classes as desire to correspond
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with other members kindly have their
class secretary notify the School Secre-
tary?
—
Early in November the Hartford Bird
Study Club invited your School Secre-
tary to Hartford, to assist in presenting
the subject of bird-study to the schools.
A lively three-days campaign, to which
the President of the Hartford Bird Study
Club devoted his time, ensued. Evening
meetings for the teachers were held in
Hartford and Glastonbury, and over four
hundred pupils from these schools became
Junior Audubon members during the
month of November.
The Audubon Society of the State of
Connecticut will loan to the schools of the
state, free of expense, circulating libra-
ries, bird-charts, portfolios of bird-pic-
tures, and illustrated lectures. Applica-
tion may be made to Mr. C. D. Hine,
Secretary of the State Board of Education,
Hartford. Frances Hurd, School
Secretary.
More Moving Pictures
Mr. Herbert K. Job has recently
returned from an extended trip to the
Wild Life Refuges in the Louisiana
marshes, where he has been securing a
new series of photographs and moving-
picture films for the use of the National
Association. By means of the courtesies
extended by one of our members, Edward
A. Mcllhenny, he was enabled to use his
moving-picture camera at close range on
many varieties of Wild Ducks, as well as
on Wilson's Snipe probing mud for food.
The new collection also contains pictures
showing the movements of Coots, Boat-
tailed Crackles, Blue Geese, and other birds
of the region. Scenes illustrating the life of
trappers and hunters were also secured.
It is our hope eventually to collect a large
series of motion-picture films illustrating
the more striking phases of American
bird-life, the educational value of which
should be very great. The Association has
received many inquiries as to this, and
the Secretary expects to answer them
definitely soon.