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ONE of the evidences of the awakening in the public mind to the importance of the subject of the status of wild birds in relation to agri.. culture, horticulture, forestry, and fisheries is the annual newspaper correspondence. The subject has been dealt with year by year in a large number of papers, from the Times to the local village weekly. Unfortunately the attitude assumed by the majority of the correspondents is one based largely upon want of knowledge and a misconception of the subject under discussion. Whilst one section of writers presupposes that the majority of wild birds are distinctly injurious and should be ruthlessly destroyed, the other regards all birds as beneficial and advocates strin.gent measures for their protection. Such. extreme views are both wrong and retard rather than aid a true understanding of a most complicated, but all-important, subject.
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COLLINGE, W. Destructive Wild Birds . Nature 99, 6–7 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099006a0
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