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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1956
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O'Donahue has fenced in at
home near Klamath Falls.
The easy-going man with the
grey bristly hair has been working
at his self-appointed game con
servation chores (or more than
20 years now, and through his ef
forts is responsible for the salva
tion of what is estimated to be
more than 100 birds a year. That
number represents only the crip
ples which O'Donahue and h i s
retriever bring in, to say nothing
of the birds which make it through
the exceptionally tough winters by
virtue of the feeding program he
maintains.
INJURIES DETERMINED
After bringing the crippled birds
in from the fields or water,
O'Donahue takes them to his
home where the full exteni. of in-
GETTING A WING TRIM JOB IN THE UPPER left photo
is one of the convalescing speckled breasted geese at Jim
O'Donahue's bird convalescent home. The wing is clipped
so the bird cannot leave the fenced-in pasture until he is
sufficiently strong to fly over the four-foot fence. O'Don
ahue explains that some of the birds would otherwise leave
before being strong enough, and would either die or be
come victims of predator animals. In the center top photo
the big bird is being released into the half acre fenced-in
portion where he will remain until next summer. The bird
will not be able to clear the fence until he moults again
at which time he will be fully able to take care of him-
self and continue with normal bird flights. Looking on as
O'Donahue puts the bird 1 in the pen is King, his 8-year-old
Labrador retriever who annually assists Jim when
working the icy waters to retrieve the crippled or sick
birds. In the upper right picture O'Donahue looks over one
of his most prized possessions. It is an original bird life
painting by John J. Audubon, and was given to him by
the late E. R. Driver, well known naturalist and conser
vationist who lived in the Medford area' for more than 30
years. The painting is of three mottled owls, and was
painted in 1830. The great detail found in the paintings
portrays the genius type ability of the artist. In addition
to the owl painting, Driver also gave O'Donahue another
Audubon oriqinal painted in 1837. In the lower left photo
Mrs. O'Donahue assures Corporal, the couple's pet skunk,
that the cameraman moans no harm and just wants him to
smile , , . and there isn't a thing to worry about, Corporal's
fusehead has been removed. Concerning the quality of
skunks as pots, Mrs. O'Donahue isn't quite sure at this
time concerning the pet qualities of such as Corporal,
'He's a real nice little animal, but when he wants to he
can get into more mischief than any six animals or people."
In addition to other chores about the house, Corporal
spends some of his time scratching the back of the O'Don
ahue's big retriever. The dog doesn't mind in the least
until Corporal elects to bite instead of scratch.
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SINCKK DIVOItCKI)
I.OS ANCEI.KS MWSinittT Peg-
BANDLEADER DIES
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. W Isham
63, one of the nation's top
bandleaders in the 11120s and IMOs
1!V hiiiR has divorced trumpet! jun,
player Knobby Lee. testifying he,
drove a c.ir so List it nuutc hir!
nervous. "1 finally h:id to go to 1,ni' composer of some 20O songs
" i , 'I' , ""J". 1 W'V!"::'!'!!: including oldlime hits "It had to
oul and I couliln I sliind il, she
told Superior .Inline A. A. Scott ine '011 "' " sec ou 'n nl'
yesterday. 'dreams." died Friday.
O'Donahue And King All Ready For Rescue Work
way and, as usual, bird s best
friend is operating in the Klamath
Basin. That is, Jim O'Donahue
and his retrieving dog King will
be going out to bring in the crip
his
lated desert east of Banning, Cali
fornia.
"It con get terrible lonely on
the desert," he recalls, "and 1 soon
realized that the occasional birds,
By JOHN GUERNSEY Should be left to die and waste or in a two room cabin in the iso-
The duck season is again under-! become predator bait."
HEALTH FAILED
How, you wonder, does a man
become interested in such work
and learn to pursue it with a full! insects, and reptiles were great
pled and sick birds so they canlmeasure of satisfaction. O'DonaVcompanions for breaking the onon
convalcsce in the half-acre field , hue explains it this way. lotony."
"A good many years ago my' He worked with rattlesnakes
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health broke down and I had t they are one of the most misrepre-
icm a um cwiiaie lor re- sentcd creatures or reptiles on
covery.
For two years he lived alone
Lower Price
Index Shown
earth.
After he satisfactorily recov
ered, he lived essentially alone in
the mountainous Butte Falls re
gion while developing some prop
erty. During his stay there, O'Dona
hue was afforded the opportunity
of being with and studying varied
forms of both bird and wildlife.
He later moved to Medford andl
That consumers are receivine came to Klamath Falls about 19
the benefit of lower food price j years ago.
levels was indicated last week bv " "That's all there was to it." he
the Consumer Price Index issued; chuckles, "I was fortunate in hav
ing a wonderful opportunity to
study nature, learned to appre
ciate the value of conservation,
and now have a thoroughly sat-
who erroneously thought they
were lost, winter starved coyotes,
crippled deer, beaver, and other
animals.
On hand now he has an assort
ment of crippled honkers, specks,
cacklers, ducks, snow geese and
one Ross goose. Also in the big
yard are several peacocks, pea
hens, and two Australian Barnacle
geese which were given to him.
Although, he is highly interested
in receiving and caring for wild
birds and animals, O'Donahue
does not encourage people to bring
such as crippled cats and dogs or
those which have been abandoned.
He points out that there are agen
cies designed to care for such un
fortunate domestic animals, with
his intent being to care for in
jured or sick wildlife from a con
servation standpoint.
Although O Donahue employes
) effort to make pets out
of any of the birds at his sanc
tuary, he explains that some bird
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Attention to these lower prices
was pointed out by George M.
MnnOan Hivicinn mnngooi. nC tl,n
juries are determined. If the birds, Safeway Stores throughout Ore
gon.
types are especially adaptable to
becoming pets.
"Both the Canadian geese and
the pelicans are inclined toward
becoming pets," he says, "why in
the case of one old pelican it was
so bad I couldn't even take a pic
ture of it . . . each time I walked
in the pen the old boy would move
up and try to swallow the cam
era. "Then there was the case of a
pelican that learned to catch. All
you had to do was throw the food
and he'd snatch it in mid air . . .
that boy could have held down a
berth with the Dodgers just
about any day."
In the field of intelligence, it is
O'Donahue's thought that t h e
magpies, honking geese, and pel
icans are the boys with the
564,000 question IQ's.
Although operating his game
conservation program on a strict-!
ly hobby-like basis, O Donahue
works in close relation with mem-l
bers of the fish and wildlife, and
game commission. He points out
that the named services maintain
excellent conservation programs
in the Basin area.
In addition to other cooperative '
arrangements, the government
agencies have made it possible
for O'Donahue to become one of
those rare exceptions ... for his
type of hunting there's no daily
or bag limit. 1
How do O'Donahue and h i I
wife Helen feed all the birds they
keep at their home and where do
they get the grain for the large
number of wild birds fed dur
ing some winters. There's quite a
bit of the feed money comes from
his own pocket and there are sev
eral persons and agencies lending
a helping hand to the Basin's re
markable conservationist.
You can help him too. When the
birds are out of effective rang
this year don't warm up your gun
barrel with a few chance shots.
isfying time working with the
homeless and injured wild birds
and animals.
In the early years of his ven
ture business was a little slow.
O'Donahue brought in what crip
pled birds he could find and
them back to flying
Mr. Mangan stated that the BLS
Index as released lest week, dis
closes all food prices had declined
1.5 per cent by mid-August from
their seasonal Deak in .lulv. Fnntk
consumed jn homes dropped 1.8 'nursed
per cent at retail stores. I strength.
Furthermore this latest BLS "I really got into the thick of it
Index if 4.1 per cent lower thanl?bout 10 years ag Jf'" we were,
ihp aii.iimn nook in fai-ii fj'losing so many birds because of
prices reached in August, l52
four years ago. During those four
year, incomes have continued
rise, with weekly earnings in
manufacturing plants, for exam
ple, up about 19 per cent. This
means the average factory work
er's paycheck now will buy about
24 per cent more food than in Aug
ust, 1952, Mr. Mangan said.
"Anyone In our business knows."
he explained, "that the food in-
are in such a condition that they
can be put in the big half-acre
pen they are placed in it after
having one wing cupped.
If they require more treatment
than can be administered in the
open lot, the birds are placed in
one of the smaller enclosed pens
O'Donahue has in his back yard,
When they are sufficiently strong
the b i r d s s arc taken from the
smaller pens, undergo the clip
ping of one wing, and are placed
in the big lot.
The conservationist explains
that he clips one wing so the
birds cannot leave the lot until
they have completely regained
their strength or been branded as
permanent cripples. The half-acre
is enclosed with a four-foot high
wire fence and the birds remain
their throughout the winter and
spring months until they have re-
moulted and repaired the deficient
wing.
CRIPPLES REMAIN
The healed birds generally fly
away during the late spring and
summer, with the permanent
cripples remaining.
What docs Jim do with the
permanent cripples? Well, thatjwhen normal seasonal fluctuations; falcons, and other types. He has
BIG NEWS FROM
botulism." he recalls. "I must
have worked with more than five
or six hundred sick ones during
each of the bad years.
BUSINESS BOOMS
After that the word of O'Dona
hue's work spread throughout the
state and he has been strictly up
to his neck in the bird and ani
mal business since that time. Con
servation minded persons and cm.
ploes with the fish and wildlife,
game commission, and state po-
dustry's modern methods and its' ij'ce departments 'now bring him
.,-i.v.c ieiaiii-isianjmais and birds from all over
tuiiMunuy press againsi rising looa the county
in ices - unu neip to translate our
increased wages and higher con
sumer incomes into higher stan
dards of eating."
Reports of "higher" food prices
His activity is hardly confined
to the care and treatment of
crippled ducks and geese. He has
in the past taken in a wide as
sortment of bird Wdcs. including
often distort the real situation 'the California house fink, eagles,
too has quite satisfactorily been
taken care of. A few years back
he and Jack Marks of the Wash
ington Park Zoo in Portland
concluded a highly beneficial
working agreement. Marks now
conies to Klamath Falls periodi
cally and removes a truck load
of the cripples to the zoo.
"That works out particularly
well." adds O'Donahue, "the en
closure at the zoo is such that any
of the cripples can leave if they
recover to the extent that they
can fly nwnv.
Although he hasn't hunted
birds with a shotgun in recent
years. O'Donahue mokes a par
ticular point of stressing that he
in no way objects to hunting. I
think it's a wonderful sport," he
says, "it's just that I don't be
lieve that all those wounded birds
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