. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Hunting coastal birds was an old custom in North Carolina. Long before market gunning, watermen's families savored wild bird dishes ranging from fried terns to stewed blue heron. In fact, few bird species eluded the cook pot. At Salter Path, watermen and their wives captured songbirds for food by casting fishing nets among yaupon and wax myrtle bushes. Harkers Islanders stewed so many waterfowl that they became known, disparagingly, as "; And children up and down the coast did not thin
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Hunting coastal birds was an old custom in North Carolina. Long before market gunning, watermen's families savored wild bird dishes ranging from fried terns to stewed blue heron. In fact, few bird species eluded the cook pot. At Salter Path, watermen and their wives captured songbirds for food by casting fishing nets among yaupon and wax myrtle bushes. Harkers Islanders stewed so many waterfowl that they became known, disparagingly, as "; And children up and down the coast did not think twice about snaring a brown pelican or a snowy egret. They made for good sport and a tasty meal. There was a feeling of abundance about all coastal bird life. Even raiding a rookery's eggs did not seem wasteful. Wild bird eggs were enormously popular. Every spring, the townspeople of Beaufort traipsed into Town Marsh in search of fresh eggs. The citizens of Wilmington made excursions as far as Caswell Beach to do their "; Street vendors might sell a few eggs and birds, but, by and large, local people hunted to meet their own needs. Hunting coastal birds on that limited scale did not seem to irrepara- bly harm their numbers. When Chowan County lawyer William Valentine visited Beaufort in the fall of 1853, he was astounded by the great flocks on Core Sound. In his diary, Valentine wrote that the birds "darkened the waters in thousands upon ; That changed after the Civil War. A new fashion of decorating ladies' hats with bird plumes fueled a maddening, international hunt for feathers. The nation's millinery trade employed more than 82,000 workers, mostly in New York City, and making ladies' hats was a big business. The. Herring gull Vellie Matthews milliners adorned hats with plumes from birds ranging from flamingos to hummingbirds. Unhindered by conservation laws, Carolinians hunted coastal birds as never before. Many desperately needed the
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