...To-day 20,000 pairs of egrets and herons are living and breeding in that bird refuge, and the two egret species are safe in at least one spot in our own country... 
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Where there were, a few years ago, thousands of blueherons, egrets, wood ducks, redbirds, and Baltimore orioles, allthose birds are now almost extinct in this state...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The "aigrettes" of the feather trade come from egrets, and, beingvery light, it requires the death of several birds to yield oneounce...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...I have before me your letter of June 8th, asking for information asto whether or no egrets shed their plumes at their nesting places insufficient quantities to enable them to be gathered commercially...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Last spring, I wenttwice a week to a breeding colony of American and snowy egrets, fromearly in April until June 8...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...If that millineryplume law is repealed, the fate of the American and snowy egrets issealed, for the few birds that remain will be shot to the very lastone...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...No; the "ospreys" of the British feather market come fromslaughtered egrets and herons, killed in the breedingseason...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The "plume-hunters" have practicallyexterminated the plume-bearing egrets, wholly annihilated theroseate spoonbill, the flamingo, and also the Carolina parrakeet...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...They nest in large colonies in companywith Egrets and Little Blue Herons,placing their nests in the mangroves, onlya few feet above the water...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...—Ten individuals ofthis species were feeding in association with Reddish Egrets in theinlet at Camp 2 on July 9...
Robert K Selander 「Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México」
...When, however, the same sounds were heard some hours laterand appeared to emanate from the mantelpiece, he went to thebowl, and, lo and behold, two young egrets had emerged! Thesewere at once fed...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...In fact, they have killed off so many ofthese lovely birds, to get feathers for rich women's hats, that to-daythere are hardly any snowy egrets left in the United States...
Prince Sarath Ghosh 「The Wonders of the Jungle」
...Worse than that, the hunters killed the Papa and Mamma egrets justwhen their babies were born, because at that time the feathers of thesnowy egrets were the softest and loveliest...
Prince Sarath Ghosh 「The Wonders of the Jungle」
...It seems not unlikely also, that one of thewhite egrets may be shown as their crests are fairly conspicuous...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
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