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Show BIRD IS WORTH PRESERVING Writer Deplores the Threatened Extinction Ex-tinction of the Beautiful and Useful Upland Plover. The upland plover, one of the most beneficial birds of all the winged host that once abounded In North America, has been hunted and shot to the verge of extermination, says Dumb Animals. With the passing of the passenger pigeons, which even now so many friends of all birds find It hard to believe be-lieve and of which a great many are not convinced, the plovers were marked for wholesale destruction. They were candidates for oblivion along with more than a score of other useful and beautiful species that could be ill spared from our vast and valuable native na-tive fauna. There Is a ray of hope that these birds may not be pursued to complete annihilation. The federal law for the ' protection of migratory birds makes it possible for the plover species to rehabilitate re-habilitate itself, provided the closed season be fixed to continue throughout the year. The upland plover Is a migratory mi-gratory bird and an insectivorous bird. Its food consists of 97 per cent of ani- mnl forms which are chiefly the worst enemies to agriculture. The federal law fixes a closed season on migratory migra-tory insectivorous birds to continue-throughout continue-throughout the year with the exception of the bobolink or rlcebird, but under the law the plover Is classed as a migratory mi-gratory game bird and so its fate Is precarious. These birds should not be shot. |