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Charles Almanzo Babcock (1847–1922) was a late-nineteenth-century superintendent of schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He is credited with launching Bird Day, a day to celebrate birds in American schools, on May 4. The first Bird Day was celebrated in Oil City schools in 1894, and by 1901 the practice was well established. His wife was the author Emma Whitcomb Babcock.

Works

• Suggestions for Bird-Day Programs in Bird-Lore, Vol. I, (1899)
• Bird Day; How to prepare for it at Project Gutenberg, (1901)

Notes

1. "Charles A Babcock (1847-1922)". Find A Grave. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
2. Doughty, Robin W. (1983) Wildlife and Man in Texas Texas A & M University Press, College Station, p. 174 ISBN 0-89096-154-9
3. ^ Armitage, Kevin C. (2007) "Bird Day for Kids: Progressive Conservation in Theory and Practice" Environmental History 12(3): pp. 528–551
4. "The First Bird Day: May 4, 1894" America's Story from America's Libraries Archived January 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
5. "Bird Day for Children: Eight States Have One and New York Educators Want It" New York Times 21 April 1901

External links

• Works by Charles Almanzo Babcock at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Charles Almanzo Babcock at the Internet Archive
• C. A. Babcock at Wikisource.

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