. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. BIRD BANDING, THE TELLTALE OF MIGRATORY FLIGHT 95 there. One banded American bird, how- ever, has been recov- ered in Africa (see text, page 119). In the United States Audubon m a d e the first record of bird marking, about 1803, while he was living on PerkiomenCreek, near Philadelphia. He placed silver cords about the legs of a Ijrood of Phoebes, two of which returned to the same neighbor- hood the following year. The pioneers in sys- tematic bird banding in this country were, first. Dr. Leon J. Cole, and later Mr. Howard H. C
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. BIRD BANDING, THE TELLTALE OF MIGRATORY FLIGHT 95 there. One banded American bird, how- ever, has been recov- ered in Africa (see text, page 119). In the United States Audubon m a d e the first record of bird marking, about 1803, while he was living on PerkiomenCreek, near Philadelphia. He placed silver cords about the legs of a Ijrood of Phoebes, two of which returned to the same neighbor- hood the following year. The pioneers in sys- tematic bird banding in this country were, first. Dr. Leon J. Cole, and later Mr. Howard H. Cleaves. Their en- thusiasm enabled them to keep Ijird Ijanding in continuous opera- tion from the begin- ning of the century to the time when the work was taken over by the Biological Sur- vey in 1920. No account of bird banding in the United States is complete without mention of Mr. S. Prentiss Bald- win. His able pioneer to 1919 in developing traps and methods for their use in the capture of small birds to be banded, and his continued investigations, merit full appreciation. His work has been done on Inwood Es- tate, near Thomasville, Georgia, and at Hillcrest, his summer home, near Cleve- land, Ohio. To his successful methods of operation and delightful presentation of the results to the public, combined with the entry of the Biological Survey into the work, with Mr. F. C. Lincoln in charge of this activ- ity, may be credited much of the rapid development of this form of scientific re- search in i^ork from 1914 Photograph from U. S. Biological Survey HE HAS BANDED MORE THAN 4,000 MALLARDS Mr. F. C. Lincoln is in cliarge of tJie bird-banding worl-: of tlie United States Biological Survey. Extraordinary work has also been done by Mr. Jack Miner at Kingsville, Ontario, where for years he has carried on the Ijanding of Ducks and Geese attracted to his refuge. He states that 40 per cent of the birds he tags in the autumn return the following spring. Geese bearing his ba
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