Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This duck arithmetic, arbitrary though it may be. strongly affects not only protective bodies like the National Association of Audubon Societies but also sportsmen who hope that their sons and grandsons may not grow up too late to enjoy the ancient and honorable sport of wildfowling. If each pair of this year's ducks were allowed to live through this winter and go north again next spring, the duck population might increase by next season to 80 million ducks, enough to assure the birds of a fresh start...
...wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who had never seen more than four eagles together, went skeptically down from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group, Ornithologist Gross said: "The loud screams and powerful wing beats of these giant birds were an experience never to be forgotten...
Together with the Robinson display, the Treasure Room is exhibiting several original drawings of John James Audubon (1750-1851) who was the author of the first anthology of American birds, and for whom the Audubon Society was named...
...Manhattan, a woodcock flew into a skyscraper's electric sign and fell outside an office window of the National Association of Audubon Societies...
...Jean Jacques Fougere Audubon (1785-1851) was born of a seafaring father and a Creole mother in Santo Domingo. Anglicizing his name to John James he went to the U. S. in 1803, launched a series of unsuccessful business enterprises of which one landed him in jail for debt. A hunter and fisherman, he managed to make a living by selling portraits, did not think of publishing his bird pictures until he" was 35. Birds of America, his most famed set of plates, were engraved in London, began appearing in 1827, now fetch $10,000 for a complete...