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The Beatrice Daily Express
Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
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An editorial warns that the needless destruction of birds is driving them away from cities, villages, and hamlets, leading to increased insect pests that damage trees and gardens. It urges legislatures to act, stop killing non-food birds, and allow their return to control pests naturally.
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Before many years have passed the legislatures of our states and nation will be forced to some action on the needless destruction of birds. The robins and bluebirds and wrens and the hundreds of glad little singers of the woods and fields have been driven away not merely from the cities, which they used to inhabit, but from the villages on the outskirts, and in some cases from even the isolated hamlets. The increase in insect pests within two or three years betokens a grave danger, and the cheapest and surest way to meet it is to stop killing the birds and let them return and dine upon the moths and caterpillars and the rest of the evil tribe that strip our trees and gardens. It will take many years, at best, to restore them in such numbers as they could be reckoned by a dozen or 20 years ago, but people by ceasing to be sportsmen, or at least by ceasing to kill the birds that are of no use as food, can bring good times back. - Exchange.
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The destruction of songbirds like robins, bluebirds, and wrens has driven them from cities, villages, and hamlets, causing a rise in insect pests that harm trees and gardens. Legislatures must act to halt bird killing, allowing their return to naturally control moths, caterpillars, and other pests, restoring balance over time by forgoing sport hunting of non-edible birds.