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Sea Birds Preservation Act 1869
The Sea Birds Preservation Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 17) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom . It was the first act to protect wild birds in that country.
History In 1868, Professor Alfred Newton addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the "On the Zoological Aspect of the Game Laws".birds of prey and seabirds during the breeding season. The British Association appointed a committee to propose a close season. The committee consisted of Frank Buckland, Henry Eeles Dresser , William Bernhardt Tegetmeier and Henry Baker Tristram . James Edmund Harting was later co-opted onto the committee.
Newton's speech cited the destruction of seabirds on the Isle of Wight and Flamborough Head . Wide publicity of his speech led to public condemnation of the residents of Bridlington . Rev. Henry Frederick Barnes-Lawrence of Bridlington Priory held a meeting of local clergy and naturalists and formed the Association for the Protection of Sea-Birds. Barnes-Lawrence's Association had the support of Francis Orpen Morris , William Thomson, Archbishop of York , and local MP Christopher Sykes .
The Act It was introduced by Christopher Sykes (MP) , Mr Clay and Mr Ward Jackson on behalf of the Association for the Protection of Sea-Birds. The act was designed to reduce the effects of shooting and egg collecting during the breeding season.auk , bonxie , Cornish chough , coulterneb , diver , eider duck , fulmar , gannet , grebe , guillemot , gull , kittiwake , loon , marrot , merganser , murre , oyster catcher , petrel , puffin , razor bill , scout , seamew , sea parrot , sea swallow , shearwater , shelldrake , skua , smew , solan goose , tarrock , tern , tystey , willock ".
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