1928 BIRD BANDING magazine article, tracking migration

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Selling is a 1928 magazine article about:
BIRD BANDING
Title: BIRD BANDING, THE TELLTALE OF MIGRATORY FLIGHT
Author: E. W. Nelson
Subtitled “A Modern Method of Learning the Flight-Ways and Habits of Birds”
Quoting the first page “Man’s interest in birds began in those far-distant primitive days when an intimate knowledge of all the wild life about him was often his only safeguard against starvation.
Long before the dawn of history the mystery in the great northerly and southerly movements each spring and autumn of vast numbers of birds of many kinds keenly interested him and stimulated his imagination. Fantastic theories were built up to account for them and entered into myths and folklore, where some still survive, even in civilized countries.
For a long period the flights of birds were considered serious portents in the affairs of men and even of nations, and priests and soothsayers used them to awe the multitude and to read the future. Literature abounds in references to bird migrations, and the poets of the sagas as well as those of more recent times have felt the mystery of these movements and have repeatedly woven them into their writings.
It has long been known that some of the smaller birds that breed in the north appear in middle latitudes on their return in July. The number of these little yoyagers increases in August and the movement is in full tide in September.
The hosts of wild fowl linger mainly until October and November, when the frosts of approaching winter in the north send them southward.
The multitude of Warblers that went northward in spring so gaily bedecked in all the bravery of their nuptial colors come trooping back with their young, all clad in sober hues more fitting their present prosaic task of making a living off the country, and laying in a goodly supply of fat to help meet any privations winter may hold in store in the warm southern lands they seek.
In far northern lands, where untold millions of Ducks and Geese and other wild fowl go to rear their young, the advent, during the last of April or early in May, of the first of these birds is the cause of exultant joy to the people. Contentment fills their hearts, for the coming of the birds marks the end of the long, cold period of scarcity and the beginning of that part of the year in which food is again plentiful.
In the old days fur traders in Canada and Alaska rewarded with tobacco the Indian or Eskimo who saw the first Goose winging its way overhead in spring. White men joined with the natives in the jubilant welcome to the newcomer. In four consecutive seasons the writer witnessed such arrivals among the Eskimos on the icebound shore of Bering Sea.
The first comer was always a single Goose. He circled high overhead, surveying the snow-mantled region where he and his kind would later rear their young. Each time this "scout" appeared to be as excited at seeing his breeding ground as the people were to see him, and the bird would fill the air with a continuous series of loud, clanging notes, sometimes heard long before he could be seen.
After viewing the snowy landscape the scout always turned back and disappeared toward the Yukon without alighting and…"
7” x 10”, 44 pages, 50 B&W photos
These are pages from an actual 1928 magazine. No reprints or copies.
28A3
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