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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1915alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ears later, proves a graphic lesson. The Scalp Act of Penn-sylvania, which paid in bounties $90,000 for the extermination ofhawks and owls, lost for the state $3,850,000 in damage to agricul-ture, due to the increase of small rodents which resulted. WhenMontana was free from hawks and owls it became so overrun withdestructive rodents that the legislature offered rewards for them—atask which the banished hawks and owls had performed free ofcharge. But during the first six months such large sums of moneywere paid out that a special session of the legislature was called torepeal the act before the state went bankrupt. In 1912 Lord Kitche-ner pointed out the necessity of prohibiting the destruction of certainEgyptian birds, which prevented insect pests. In closing Mr. Buckland makes a plea for the preservation of allbirds as a valuable natural resource, stating that if their destructionis not checked, there will be wrought a mischief, a universal disaster,greater than words can express.
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