Audubon's perspective on coyotes  DEDE ARMENTROUT, Regional Vice
President, Southwest Region, National Audubon Society, 2525
Wallingwood, Suite 1505, Austin, TX 78746  The National Audubon
Society The National Audubon Society is a charitable, non-profit
citizens’ scientific and education organization. We were formed
in the early 1900s as a coalition of independent outdoor nature
groups who banded together to conserve many species of birds
which were being destroyed by an unregulated market on meat and
feathers.  In 1904, feathers from some of the long legged wading
birds were literally worth their weight in gold: $32.00 an
ounce. As a consequence of the high price, no education
programs, and no regulatory apparatus, parent birds were being
hunted year round, including when they had young in their nests.
Especially during nesting seasons they were easy prey because of
their reluctance to leave their young. Nesting colonies of birds
were rapidly destroyed.  By hunting nesting birds, the
profiteers of the feathe