A hundred years ago, conservationists first identified cats as a serious threat to birds. We’re still dealing with the same challenge today.| birdhistory.substack.com
Before pesticides, birds were a farmer's best defense against bugs. And the government’s economic ornithologists could tell you exactly how much each bird was worth.| birdhistory.substack.com
Italian immigrants in the early 20th century hunted and ate songbirds, which put them in direct conflict with American conservationists.| birdhistory.substack.com
In the Progressive era, students learned to build birdhouses to end “the cruel sacrifice of birds of song by the truant school-boy”| birdhistory.substack.com