THE FEATHERED FRIENDS OF MAN:
“The service that birds perform in protecting woodland trees,” writes E. H. Forbush, State Entomologist of Massachusetts, “is more nearly indispensable to man than any other benefit they confer on him, . . . Were the natural enemies of forest insects annihilated, every tree in our woods would be threatened with destruction, and man would be powerless to prevent the calamity. Yet this hurculean task is ordinarily accomplished as a matter of course by birds and other insectivorous creatures, without trouble or expense to man.”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 52, 1 May 1939, Page 16
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87THE FEATHERED FRIENDS OF MAN: Forest and Bird, Issue 52, 1 May 1939, Page 16
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