Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, June 3, 1857
The poor birds are dying of cold in New Jersey. One day last week hundreds of little birds, who were allured from their tropical homes in hopes of a Northern summer, fell to the ground dead, or nearly so, in the midst of their flight. In Trenton, the children were picking up and nursing these […]
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 9, 1853
Three of the Chinca Islands, on the coast of Peru, on which guano (crap) is deposited by birds, are said to contain two hundred and fifty millions of tons of the manure, worth one thousand two hundred and fifty million pound sterling, or upwards of seven thousand millions of dollars.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 10, 1728
Several Gentlemen lately arrived from Holland report, that the inhabitants of that country are very much afraid of a hard winter, by reason of the extraordinary flocking together of Ravenous Land-Fowls towards the sea-coast, an infallible sign, which has very much raised the price of all sorts of provisions there, especially Tobacco, Brandy and Coal.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1738
We are told that 300,000 Souls have perished in this storm; but believe the number is exaggerated; a prodigious Quantity of Cattle of all sorts, a great many Tigers in the lower Ganges, and several Rhinoceros were drowned, even a great many Caymans, Amphibious Animals, were killed by the furious agitation of the waters, and […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Friday, March 22, 1737
We hear from the upper part of James River that because of the severity of the weather that large flocks of wild fowl were froze to death; and since the ice has been gone, great numbers of fish have been thrown upon the shore dead. The like has not been known in the memory of […]
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 12, 1897
The little English sparrows are the gamest birds that live. They have driven the bluebirds, robins, martens, and swallows away from most of their old haunts and taken possession. Several persons watched a flock of the brave little fellows try to drive a cat out of the park at the city hall this morning. Hundreds […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 6, 1910
Chicago Boy Accidently Steps On Mud Hen and Biddy takes Exception With the Result Boy Loses Both Eyes. As the result of an attack by an infuriated bird at Fox Lake on Tuesday, Walter Hansen, 13 years old, son of Theodore Hansen of Chicago, may lose his sight. The sight of one eye is entirely […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 10, 1906
Charles Haines, the baby son of H. J. Haines of Urbana, Ia., was pecked about the head and face so viciously by a blue jay which attacked him while he was playing that his death resulted. The child fought desperately to drive the bird away and was almost exhausted when his mother reached his side. […]
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1854
Mr. Joseph Adams, of Eden, Lamoille, County, Vermont, [a town which he helped settle when a youth, and he is now over seventy years old,] writes us that “I have kept bees nearly forty years, and I have stood and watched the King-bird in a cold misty day, and have seen them sit on my […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, August 19, 1853
At the late session of the New York Legislature, an act was passed, forbidding under heavy penalties, the killing of birds in cemeteries, and buying and selling birds killed or taken therein or therefrom. In some of the handsomer cemeteries near New York city, the trees have been stocked with birds of beautiful plumage and […]