...McIlhenny's egret preserve, at Avery Island, Louisiana, became a pronounced success, we had believed that our two egrets soon would become totally extinct in the United States... 
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...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」
...The success of this campaign is attested by the fact that last yeara number of egrets were seen in eastern Massachusetts—for thefirst time in many years...
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」
...If I am correctly informed, the London feather trade admits that itrequires six egrets to yield one "ounce" of aigrette plumes...
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」
...No; the "ospreys" of the British feather market come fromslaughtered egrets and herons, killed in the breedingseason...
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」
...—We saw awhite (immature) individual feeding with Reddish Egrets alongan inlet at Camp 2 on July 8...
Robert K Selander 「Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México」
...A few men armedwith guns are able to shoot every adult member of the colony,because the egrets continue to feed their young until they areshot...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Taking advantage of the social habits ofthese egrets the plume-hunters issue forth early in May andbetake themselves, in parties of five or six, to the villageswhere the birds roost...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...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」
...As for egrets, pawpers, and such like, they are daily brought unto us from beyond the sea, as if all the fowl of our country could not suffice to satisfy our delicate appetites...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
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