Show BIRD IS WORTH PRESERVING Writer Deplores the Threatened Extinction Ex Ex- Unction of the Beautiful and Useful Upland Plover The upland plover one of ot the most beneficial birds of all nil the winged hinged host that once abounded In North America has Jias been hunted and shot to the verge of extermination says sa s 's Dumb Animals With the passing of the passenger pigeons which even now so many friends of all birds fin find a It hard to belleve believe be be- sieve lieve and of which a n great many are not Dot convinced the plovers were marked for wholesale destruction The They were candidates for oblivion lon along with more than a score of other useful and beautiful species that could be III ill spared from our vast and valuable native native na na- tive fauna There Is a ray of hope that these birds may not be pursued to complete I annihilation The rhe federal law for the protection of migratory birds makes it possible for lor the plover species to rehabilitate rehabilitate re re- re- re habilitate itself provided pro the closed I season be he fixed fired to continue throughout ithe ahe year The rhe upland plover plo Is a ml- ml bird and an on Insectivorous orous bird Its food tood consists of 07 1 per cent of ani- ani imal forms which are chiefly the worst enemies to agriculture The federal law a n closed season on migratory migratory migra tory irl Int Insectivorous orous birds to continue throughout the year eur with the exception of the bobolink l or but under the law haw the plover is s classed as a ml- ml game bird and so Its Us fate is precarious These birds should not be shot 1 |