Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
    It is not generally realized how great an enemy the sea gull is to smaller birds. An observer ventures the opinion that the reason why small migrants invariably cross the sea by night is that otherwise they would be simply exterminated by gulls. Sometimes it happens that a change in the wind delays the arrival of flights of spring migrants, so that they fail to make a landing before daylight. Lighthouse keepers have then witnessed scenes of savage slaughter; hundreds of poor, tired, little songsters being hinted down by gulls, seized and devoured.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1922
Washington Specimen Uses the Street Car as His Particular Means of Transportation.
    Now that spring is here, it may interest bird lovers to know that at least one bird has solved the problem of transportation without the use of wings.
    Birds are famous for their migrations, but hitherto they always have used wings. Now comes along one local bird who gets hinself from place to place with scarcely the flap of a wing.
    This bird came riding down Pennsylvania avenue about eleven o’clock one morning last week. He was perched on the roof of a street car coming from Georgetown.
    When the car stopped at Eleventh street the bird alighted, and walked gravely up and down the platform. He was a fine, big fellow, with a black body and a blue head, but did not look like a blackbird.
    After surveying the post office department for a bit, the bird flew over to a car about to leave for Mount Vernon, and established himself on the roof.
    When the car pulled out, the bird was with it.-Washington Star.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 12, 1922
    The greatest bird gourmand is the vulture of southeast Europe. Seven vultures can strip the carcass of a horse in half an hour. After such a meal, they can only fly a few yards. They stand with puffed-out bodies, drooping wings, and blood-shot eyes, uttering hideous cries.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1922
    At the extreme northerly point of the Shetlands- a place nearer the pole than Petrograd-is a small, lonely hut, where H. Edwardson of London lives every spring with the sea birds as almost sole companions. For 33 years he has occupied this hut from spring to autumn. For many years he has been the watcher of the society for the protection of birds. Edwardson’s long vigil in the absolute loneliness of hills, sky and sea, has been well rewarded. The stock of birds has increased notably, especially the skuas, great northern divers, fulmers and golden plover, while there are new colonies of gannets on the cliffs. The birds know the watcher, and the skuas even come to the door of his hut for food when they find it reopened each spring.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 12, 1905
    People living near Fox Lake have several times this spring noticed a white blackbird among others of its species flying about the marshy places which abound in that region. The bird is reported to be absolutely white with the exception of the regular red spot which is on the wings of all males. Last summer a white fledging was said to have been reared in one of the sloughs, departing southward in the autumn with its fellows. It is evident that this is the same bird returning fully matured to the scene of its first flight.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 12, 1914
 Crow Which Never Missed a Religious Meeting Held in Zion City is Missing.
Shame Cry Crusaders.
Hundreds of Zionites Mourn Bird Whose Attendance at Services Was Marked.
    Zion City, Dec. 12,-“Jack,” the pet crow, which has attended the crusade meetings held twice daily in front of the F. B. Cook factory, has been assassinated. Some foul, soul-stained criminal has waylaid the bird and has either dropped him with a slingshot or a shotgun, for “Jack” is laid low and he can no longer protest by his presence against tobacco users who have invaded Zion City.
    For weeks “Jack” has been faithful at these early morning meetings. At 7:15 promply he was on the job seated on a post as the tobacco users went by to work, and listening attentively and reverently as the elders prayed and sang. Then he would wait until the crusaders filed out of the enclosure, and perhaps get a pat or two on the back by way of encouragement, and when the last member had gone he would fly back up the boulevard in stages until the procession reached Sheridan Road, then he would go “straight as the crow flies” for home.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1907
    The crow bounty law, which goes into effect July 1, will probably create a new industry in Illinois. By the terms of this law every crow’s egg will be worth five cents at the county treasurer’s office. What is to hinder a man from securing several pairs of crows and going into the crow egg business? Crow’s eggs at 60 cents a dozen beats hen’s eggs about 100 per cent. The law makes a fixed market for crow’s eggs and the price will be the same the year around. Each female crow in a year’s time will lay from ten to a dozen eggs. Some little domestication may be necessary to train crows to barn yard habits, but there is no reason why the ingenuity of man may not overcome this obstacle.-Pontiac Sentinel.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 11, 1885
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    Miss Sartorius, in her book on the Soudan and Egypt, says: “Every village has its pigeon houses, looking like great mud cones, and in the evening the owners go out and call them in. But when a man wants to get hold of extra pigeons, instead of calling them he frightens pigeons away. They do not understand this, keep circling above, and swoop down now and then toward their houses. Other pigeons, seeing this commotion, join them, and as soon as the man sees there are enough he hides. The whole of the birds, old and new, then go into the house, and the man returning shuts them in. This would be fine business if it were not that all of them do the same thing, and, therefore, each gets caught in his turn. They know this perfectly well, but no Egyptian fellah could resist the temptation of cheating his neighbors
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 27, 1882
    In a recent trip to Sparta, Wis., Messrs. R. O. Earl and C. H. Rice, of this city, indulged in pigeon hunting on a grand scale. They visited a pigeon roost and captured between 800 and 900 pigeons, nearly all young ones. They were taken with nets and are now being fattened in Waukegan. They report that region as fairly alive with pigeons when they arrived there, but the birds have since flown. One man sowed twelve acres of wheat, but the birds lit down upon it in countless thousands and in an hour not a kernel could be seen. Under the laws of Wisconsin no one is allowed to set traps or nets nearer to a roost than one and one-half miles. The birds have gone northward and our hunters are half tempted to follow them.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 29, 1914
Oak Ridge, Mich., Fancier Discovers Unique Fate of Prize Egg.
    Oak Ridge, Mich., April 29.-Frank Briggs, in his pigeon loft was attracted by the “cheep, cheep” of a chick.
    Mr. Briggs is a chicken fancier and became lest one of his prize chickens had escaped. He found that a pigeon had hatched an egg left in its nest by a vagrant $5 hen and was rearing the chick as a pigeon.