| Show save the eagle naturalists Natura lists beg our national bird threatened with extermination through lack of protection kill ED IN ALASKA bounty offered b by the territory re rc alt if 1 in heavy slaughter eghte 1 in two yaro acara one largest bod bird el at prey W washington iho hie bald headed eagle or fit the eagle to w aa it 1 ial more or popularly ora darly known anon tile the count country rys B no na dional bird and emblem 1 Is rapidly b being in g ex exterminated to located unless uie something Is don done buc on mil m point t out oak to p e the destruction of fill this grint great bird r d which x ilch la 1 now alos going on it mil become go BO scarce that net it may alti ulti it ati here become a to joe it Is la in alaska that the american america ft eagle g le la 19 mo roost mot t abundant bill today y and ad it Is 1 there hem that the finest specimens deam ens are to be b e found it is in alaska too that the he 0 cigle 1 I Is in the gravest danger of extermination extermination in april 1017 1917 the ter for 1 forty iman of alaska placed I 1 bointy of 50 tents kelts ahead a head tor far ewy 0 bra end and other file wed birds of at prey killed up P to the end of abill 1919 in less leija than tu two anum it ft is if estimated that 5 ODO eagles 91 he bae bec been killed they we its it tt as maintained destructive to iff gam salmon him and ad bird birds ll it was im out only recently that gi eliias abts to the gravity of the sit u allon confronting the eagles the american a union an 01 m mp of about 1000 e composed smi of naturalists natura lists bud and scientists cj I 1 I 1 ti n scattered a ei caliere or th throughout through goult ont the a lolled states 11 be roo now lucym become abou arou rom d to tile the dinger danger tile the blossom of natural bud aud other scientific institutions Is lat in the pro prea of the eagle glo and ma mathold tholo hems meri eer where here are anniona to do to efte the bird fr from build nation not breeder the bald eagle is wil thun but a prolific breeder it raises not more than one or two me oung in a brood abrand cry car tile the birds buld build umer their nets neta ne ta in big trees from or in tall of clefts ire long along the sea am coasts their nests ere are 3 or 4 11 ea in d diameter 1 1 r and are arc aey ery co conspicuous in hunting it tie birds with cs seek the neuta m the old birds will fight to protect the their young und and ohen tile die nests are n attack tack ed ad they hov holer er about them in this manner tile the parent paren birds are arc shot flat by tiati teai ab bho the alieu d dispatch p wit on the he 1 young I ag eaglet the eagle cogle 1 Is not a very illy ile clev v er or wary uary bird neither Is ie he be a fast it flier old and it la 11 not always a 1 difficult matter far or hunted hunte a to slay hlin him the T a bald eagle angle an aalde aid although a bird of prey I 1 is not s destructive as am im has been represented smaller birds such anch as the book bank do far more diore damage it feeds on fish preferably and principally on dead lish hh it will mill act lens pon pursue a fish h hk hank k tn in order to steal the fish theistic the latter has from tile the water later the bald eagle is useful since it de m it br g ground no it air ails t ind ad other or do destructive animals it la 19 not so much because of 0 hla him legle destructs eness but bebau because a of at a desire to obtain tile bounty that he I 1 being hunted and slain so BO widely 1 in alaska al ku he I 1 Is our or largest bird of prey and ad 1 in many respects the roost mot y striking and ad splendid mary many false alse tales have bale been told and elicit blind about him he III he has he beet pic turca bared ss fea ferocious clem hen 1 in truth he im laa no natural enemies ile he might be temp tempted t sit to carry off a very young lamb 1 but but tales ou of boffl ba on babies or oung ng children chil then dien are untrue true and bolt our one national bird U be as our one natio national at bird he up ap pears peace a on our coma me bud and mirim cu nency icy oil mc our nor a cost coat of or ani and ad seals cut his bis golden replica tops tan the staffs on which our flig la strung he habash has heen B aa 1 pj ratio to millions future of sol good americans amr icam and ad is I 1 the natural pet pat and ad companion pont of U uncle ill sam unless esceo dismo pismo Dle alles aro r to takeo no to present but him bl ex in hi ft a short time lie will be come as source scarce as the buffalo me e emi are a tte wasteful f nation antion e were for a I 1 long a time i to the delto delt O of f the lie bell buffalo and now we a or are open spending d ing th all mal I 1 of it or on an to reservations or to bl bring h him im back we should sale BH e the eagle tile the bald eagle bald aed to net nest in at state te in hi the he union it la Is found all 11 oer me north orth america aa 11 far a 1 9 tile the arctic cr regions on sen to coasts mm ink lakes and rire ri rivers re LOW lnell recently american were lere quite eme common in florida 1 or do and nd few v wars is ago an 0 10 ga saw or there them aw they are 0 ex tremelt source because they may have hem been slain by lesa emte li many have been slain just jot aib for tile the fun fail a of f I 1 it or rb because 4 a hunter mi could old not at resist real f the temptation to bring to earth t h such a prize prim the bald eagle if let alone often lives to a preen grecol old age go they me live to be finy fifty or one wilred beirs com old aid they hale haie billed in to the latter age an ornithologist said that bo be cae ca e of tile the great age attained by 1 ealek I ninny many P people ale on ma seeing boeing the he same eagle mistook it for far a new one he explained that a man living in a ariet certain lic locality who saw on nn eagle and then dill did not see cm no an earle 91 agaba 91 for ten or nom more years lowe on seeing it ft naturally mistook it for fi a new eagle the bald averages ilges 3 feet in length faver and ad 7 feet from rare tip to tip of its gingg when hen |
