February 2016

The Audubon Society- saving birds

In the late 1800’s bird feathers, and especially plumes, were literally worth more than gold. The feather trade was active, supplying plumes and even whole birds as hat decorations. Egret colonies were decimated, the adults stripped of plumes while the nestlings starved. “When the Audubon Society first formed in 1886, plume hunters were decimating North American bird …

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