Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — Funds to Save the Herons. [ARTICLE]

Funds to Save the Herons.

Following the publication of an account of a disaster which has recently befallen a great colony of herons which occupied a small island of about three acres in the marsh near Charleston, S, C., a public-spirited woman has contributed SIOO toward, the purchase of the Island.

On the island from one thousand to three thousand herons of five different kinds —Including the snowy egret, the rarest and most beautiful of all the heron tribe —had their homes and reared their young. A brief time ago the owner of the Inland, an Atlanta man, practically wiped out the heronry by having the bushes which covered the place cut away and tbe Island planted In oats. Today two or three hundred herons still breed In the few bushes that remain on the island, while it Is believed that the greater numberiof the birds have established themselves on another island near by.