LIST OF NATIONAL BIRD RESERVATIONS
| NO. | NAME | DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT |
| 1. | Pelican Island, Fla. | Mar. 14, 1903 |
| 2. | Breton Island, La. | Oct. 4, 1904 |
| 3. | Stump Lake, N. Dak. | Mar. 9, 1905 |
| 4. | Huron Islands, Mich. | Oct. 10, 1905 |
| 5. | Siskiwit Islands, Mich. | Oct. 10, 1905 |
| 6. | Passage Key, Fla. | Oct. 10, 1905 |
| 7. | Indian Key, Fla. | Feb. 10, 1906 |
| 8. | Tern Islands, La. | Aug. 8, 1907 |
| 9. | Shell Keys, La. | Aug. 17, 1907 |
| 10. | Three Arch Rocks, Oregon | Oct. 14, 1907 |
| 11. | Flattery Rocks, Wash. | Oct. 23, 1907 |
| 12. | Quillayute Needles, Wash. | Oct. 23, 1907 |
| 13. | Copalis Rock, Wash. | Oct. 23, 1907 |
| 14. | East Timbalier, La. | Dec. 7, 1907 |
| 15. | Mosquito Inlet, Fla. | Feb. 24, 1908 |
| 16. | Tortugas Keys, Fla. | Apr. 6, 1908 |
| 17. | Key West, Fla. | Aug. 8, 1908 |
| 18. | Klamath Lake, Oregon | Aug. 8, 1908 |
| 19. | Lake Malheur, Oregon | Aug. 18, 1908 |
| 20. | Chase Lake, N. Dak. | Aug. 28, 1908 |
| 21. | Pine Island, Fla. | Sept. 15, 1908 |
| 22. | Palma Sola, Fla. | Sept. 26, 1908 |
| 23. | Matlacha Pass, Fla. | Sept. 26, 1908 |
| 24. | Island Bay, Fla. | Oct. 23, 1908 |
| 25. | Lock-Katrine, Wyo. | Oct. 26, 1908 |
| 26. | Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii | Feb. 3, 1909 |
| 27. | Salt River, Ariz. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 28. | East Park, Cal. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 29. | Deer Flat, Idaho | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 30. | Willow Creek, Mont. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 31. | Carlsbad, N. Mex. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 32. | Rio Grande, N. Mex. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 33. | Cold Springs, Oregon | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 34. | Belle Fourche, S. Dak. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 35. | Strawberry Valley, Utah | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 36. | Keechelus, Wash. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 37. | Kachess, Wash. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 38. | Clealum, Wash. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 39. | Bumping Lake, Wash. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 40. | Conconully, Wash. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 41. | Pathfinder, Wyo. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 42. | Shoshone, Wyo. | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 43. | Minidoka, Idaho | Feb. 25, 1909 |
| 44. | Bering Sea, Alaska | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 45. | Tuxedni, Alaska | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 46. | St. Lazaria, Alaska | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 47. | Yukon Delta, Alaska | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 48. | Culebra, P. R. | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 49. | Farallon, Calif. | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 50. | Pribilof, Alaska | Feb. 27, 1909 |
| 51. | Bogoslof, Alaska | Mar. 2, 1909 |
| 52. | Clear Lake, Calif. | Apr. 11, 1911 |
| 53. | Forrester Island, Alaska | Jan. 11, 1913 |
| 54. | Hazy Islands, Alaska | Jan. 11, 1913 |
| 55. | Niobrara, Nebr. | Jan. 11, 1913 |
| 56. | Green Bay, Wis. | Feb. 21, 1913 |
| 57. | Chamisso Island, Alaska | Dec. 7, 1912 |
| 58. | Pishkun, Montana | Dec. 17, 1912 |
| 59. | Desecheo Island, P. R. | Dec. 19, 1912 |
| 60. | Gravel Island, Wis. | Jan. 9, 1913 |
| 61. | Aleutian Islands, Alaska | Mar. 3, 1913 |
| 62. | Walker Lake, Ark. | Apr. 31, 1913 |
| 63. | Petit Bois Island, Ala. and Miss. | May 6, 1913 |
| 64. | Anaho Island, Nevada | Sept. 4, 1913 |
| 65. | Smith Island, Wash. | June 6, 1914 |
| 66. | Ediz Hook, Wash. | Jan. 20, 1915 |
| 67. | Dungeness Spit, Wash | Jan. 20, 1915 |
| 68. | Big Lake, Arkansas | Aug. 2, 1915 |
| 69. | Goat Island, California | Aug. 9, 1916 |
| 70. | North Platte, Nebraska | Aug. 21, 1916 |
Audubon Society Reservations.—It may be noted from this list that there are no Government bird reservations in the original thirteen colonies. The reason is that there are no Government waste lands containing bird colonies in these states. To protect the colony-breeding birds found there other means were necessary. The Audubon Society employs annually about sixty agents to guard in summer the more important groups of water birds along the Atlantic Coast and about some of the lakes of the interior. Water-bird colonies are usually situated on islands where the birds are comparatively free from the attacks of natural enemies; hence the question of guarding them resolves itself mainly into the question of keeping people from disturbing the birds during the late spring and summer months. Painted signs will not do this. Men hired for the purpose constitute the only adequate means. Some of the protected islands have been bought or leased by the Audubon Society, but in many cases they are still under private ownership and the privilege of placing a guard had to be obtained as a favour from the owner. Probably half a million breeding water birds now find protection in the Audubon reservations. On the islands off the Maine coast the principal birds safeguarded by this means are the Herring Gull, Arctic Tern, Wilson's Tern, Leach's Petrel, Black Guillemot, and Puffin. There are protected colonies of Terns on Long Island; of Terns and Laughing Gulls on the New Jersey coast; of Black Skimmers, and of various Terns, in Virginia and North Carolina.
One of the greatest struggles the Audubon Society has ever had has been to raise funds every year for the protection of the colonies of Egrets and Ibis in the South Atlantic States. The story of this fight is longer than can be told in one short chapter. The protected colonies are located mainly in the low swampy regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. I have been in many of these "rookeries" and know that the warden who undertakes to guard one of them takes his life in his hand. Perhaps a description of one will answer more or less for the twenty other Heron colonies the Society has under its care.
The Corkscrew Rookery.—Some time ago I visited the warden of this reservation, located in the edge of the "Big Cypress" Swamp thirty-two miles south of Ft. Myers, Florida. Arriving at the colony late in the evening, after having travelled thirty miles without seeing a human being or a human habitation, we killed a rattlesnake and proceeded to make camp. The shouting of a pair of Sandhill Cranes awakened us at daylight, and, to quote Greene, the warden, the sun was about "two hands high" when we started into the rookery. We crossed a glade two hundred yards wide and then entered the swamp. Progress was slow, for the footing was uncertain and the tall sawgrass cut our wrists and faces.
There are many things unspeakably stimulating about a journey in such a tropical swamp. You work your way through thick, tangled growths of water plants and hanging vines. You clamber over huge fallen logs damp with rank vegetation, and wade through a maze of cypress "knees." Unwittingly, you are sure to gather on your clothing a colony of ravenous ticks from some swaying branch. Redbugs bent on mischief scramble up on you by the score and bury themselves in your skin, while a cloud of mosquitoes waves behind you like a veil. In the sombre shadows through which you move you have a feeling that there are many unseen things that crawl and glide and fly, and a creepy feeling about the edges of your scalp becomes a familiar sensation. Once we came upon the trail of a bear and found the going easier when we waded on hands and knees through the opening its body had made.
In the more open places the water was completely covered with floating plants that Greene called "wild lettuce." These appeared to be uniform in size, and presented an absolutely level surface except in a few places where slight elevations indicated the presence of inquisitive alligators, whose gray eyes we knew were watching our movements through the lettuce leaves.
Although the swamp was unpleasant under foot, we had but to raise our eyes to behold a world of beauty. The purple blossoms of air plants, and the delicate petals of other orchids greeted us everywhere. From the boughs overhead long streamers of gray Spanish moss waved and beckoned in the breeze. Still higher, on gaunt branches of giant cypresses a hundred feet above our heads, great, grotesque Wood Ibises were standing on their nests, or taking flight for their feeding grounds a dozen miles southward.
