Elizabeth V. Brown

“ Hence the Bird-Day program should mark the culminating rather than the initial point of bird study for the year.
The children should be led to anticipate it. and should be prepared for it in as many ways and for as long a time as possible. All that nature lovers have written or poets sung will have deeper significance after the child′s contact with the birds of his neighborhood, as seen in parks, woods, or fields. To see their pictures is not enough. Field Work alone can give the stimulus which leads to fellowship, sympathy, love, and protection. ”

“ As in every other subject, an interest in birds should be based upon the knowledge gained by the child primarily through his own observations and experiences, supplemented and enriched later by what he reads or has told him. ”

“ For young children especially, interest is most readily aroused through the study of the activities which ally bird and child. The character and the adaptation of birds′ clothing, foods and homes to their peculiar needs and environment ”