Word: cottam
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Between chilly field trips and genial banquets the birdmen found time to read each other some 60 papers. Dr. James Bond (Philadelphia) lashed out at ''so-called scientists and collectors" who have almost annihilated some species of birds. Dr. Clarence Cottam (U. S. Biological Survey) heightened the birdmen's concern over the decrease in North American waterfowl (see col. 3) by telling them how brant and Canada geese have suffered from the strange disappearance of eel grass during the past three years (TIME...
...Eastern duck hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...