Distribution and migration of North American shore birds. - (1910) (14562424547)

Identifier: distributionmigr00cook_0 (find matches)
Title: Distribution and migration of North American shore birds. --
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916
Subjects: Limicolae Birds
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries



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04 (Lang); Aweme, Manitoba, average October 14,latest October 16, 1901 (Criddle); near Fort Pierre, S. Dak., October21, 1855 (Cassin); Fort Sherman, Idaho, abundant September15-20, 1896 (Merrill); Newcastle, Colo., October 5, 1902 (Bishop);Lincoln, Nebr., November 14, 1899 (Wolcott); Lanesboro, Minn.,November 2, 1889 (Hvoslef); southern Iowa, average October 27,latest November 9, 1895 (Currier); Chicago, 111., average October11, latest October 28, 1895 (Blackwelder); English Lake, Ind.,November 9, 1891, November 15, 1892 (Butler); Ottawa, Ontario,October 31, 1906 (White); city of Quebec, Canada, November 10,1890 (Dionne); San Jose, Costa Rica, December 15, 1890 (Cherrie). The golden plover is one of the shorebirds that has diminishedmost markedly during the last twenty years. Formerly it wasenormously abundant, and many are the accounts of the countlessflocks that passed in an almost continuous stream across the Gulf of Bui. 35, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate IV.
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KiLLDEER (OXYECHUS VOCIFERUS). KILLDEEE. 85 St. Lawrence and out to sea. On the return up the MississippiValley also they were abundant. For the ten years 1895-1904the numbers reported have been so small that the species seemed inimminent danger of extinction. During 1905 and 1906, however,the species was reported from quite a number of locaHties, indicatingthat at present the comparatively small number of individuals leftare holding their own. The future of the American golden plover isin the hands of the sportsmen of the Mississippi Valley. During thebreeding season the birds are out of reach of danger from mankind;through the winter their welfare is out of the control of the people ofthe United States; but in spring during their two thousand milejourney up the Mississippi Valley, for from six to eight weeks, greatnumbers are slaughtered, and as a result they have diminished to asmall fraction of their former numbers. If the species is to hold itsown spring shooting in the Mississip