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May 2016

Baby Birds at the Library

A family of house sparrows has taken up residence in one of the north windows of the library reference room. The youngsters can be heard begging much of the day, and the parents have been kept very busy. The nest is placed so that we can't really see into it, but we can now see little wings flapping ...

Notes from William Brewster: Ornithologists in the Courtroom

In March 1886, one deacade before the Massachusetts Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds had organized, William Brewster wrote three letters to fellow ornithologist George Sennett, describing an early attempt to pass bird protection legislation in Massachusetts.

Brewster, who would become the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s first president and a co-founder of the American...

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