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Title: Wild birds and their haunts (a book for students and sportsmen)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Halliday, W
Subjects: Water birds Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, Heath, Cranton limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ere. Of morerecent years, their wonderful migration movementshave interested, nay fascinated, those of us who so lovinglytread the byways of Birdland in a manner never beforemade possible in the history of the world. To thesportsman, bird dealer, and plume hunter, these featheredbipeds have also made an undoubted claim, but a rabidsentimentalist such as myself has no patience what-soever, and no place within his ken, for such as these.Gene Stratton-Porters sentiments coincide with minein this connection. Give me my ears and eyes, aidedfor preference, by a pair of good field glasses, and I amcontent to watch and listen, to observe and notify,rather than to capture, maim, or slaughter these brightwinsome creatures, whose right it is to share withourselves the beneficence of the sunshine and theglorious in-breathing of the air. I make no idle boast of the belief I hold that everycreated thing serves some good purpose to the greatscheme of life, and it is only the poverty of our knowledge
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Introduction 17 or our lack of appreciation or understanding, that sooften results in the woeful condemnation of this or that.Prove to me up to the hilt that any one thing that livesdoes not fulfil some useful link in the immense chain ofexistence, and to my mind the whole scheme of creationfalls toppling to the ground. But enough of this moralis-ing. Let us to the fields and woods to listen to thebirdland orchestra, or to be conducted by the Author tothe rockgirt shores of our treasure island home so as towatch the seabirds both at work and play. There oneshall find respite and relaxation from the busy turmoilof a topsey-turvey world at a period when the mindsorely demands some solace and stimulant such as Naturealone can offer. Birds, as I have stated in My Life as a Naturalist,and several other volumes which have met with so muchencouraging success from an appreciative Nature lovingpublic, were my early love and I shall always retain awarm place in my affections for these cheery he

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