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Foreword
Early in this century, the old Bureau of Biological Survey
put out a booklet called "Fifty Common Birds of Farm
and Orchard," with paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
In 1962, a former Fish and Wildlife Service staffer named
Rachael Carson wrote "Silent Spring," a book that changed
American thinking about birds-and pesticides.
That first volume is out of date because of our great
population shifts in six decades. And I hope that "Silent
Spring" will be out of date some day; that our birds will
live with us in an unpoisoned environment of cities and
towns that are cleaner, healthier, greener.
So here is a new "bird book" from the Department of the
Interior, geared to the 50 birds you might see in your city,
with paintings done by a man who picked up the fallen
Fuertes brush, Bob Hines. These are not endangered birds,
except as all living things are endangered; some of them
are living in or passing through your backyard or city park
right now. Look well at Bob's art; he is not commemorating
the passenger pigeon but trying to open your eyes to the
world about you.
And he is trying to suggest that these birds can live in
our towns and cities so long as you help provide the healthy
habitat they need, habitat that is healthy not just for them
but for you.
Enjoy this little book, learn from it, and take a vow that
our springs will not be silent of bird calls-and will be
more silent of human clatter.
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Hines, Bob & Anastasi, Peter A. Fifty Birds of Town and City, book, 1973; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1047/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.