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to the negative ecological effects from the opening of the ocean inlets in the late 1940s, the Indian River Lagoon had become very brackish, causing a host of new environmental problems. The increased salinity of the lagoon, for example, killed off the oyster beds. Another problem has been pollution and pesticides being flushed into the Indian River from man-made canals.

2. Arthur C. Bent, Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1922, No. 121).

3. Ibid.

4. James Alexander Henshall, Camping and Cruising in Florida (Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke & Co., 1884), p. 57 and Robert R. Cointepoix, “Early Ornithologists,” Tales of Sebastian (Vero Beach, Fla.: Sebastian River Area Historical Society, 1990), p. 127.

5. “The Stork Facts,” Kingdom (December 17, 2002).

6. White Stork File (Washington, D.C.: National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution). See also J. A. Hancock, J. A. Kushlan, and M. P. Kahl, Storks, Ibises, and Spoonbills of the World (London: Academic, 1992).

7. Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, English Edition, Vol. II (London: Edward Cumley, 1941), pp. 271–274.

8. Jackie Wullschlager, Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller (New York: Knopf, 2001), p. 194.

9. “The Kroegel Family Stories,” in The Original Tales from Sebastian (Sebastian, Fla.: Sebastian River Area Historical Society, 1992), pp. 45–48.

10. Arline Westfahl and George Keyes, One Person Can Make a Difference: A Story of Paul Kroegel and Pelican Island (Vero Beach, Fla.: Sebastian River Area Historical Society, 2003).

11. Wallace Stegner, The American West as Living Space (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987), p. v.

12. Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge Archives, Vero Beach, Fla. More than thirty bird species used Pelican Island as a rookery, feeding ground, or loafing area. Among the most common besides brown pelicans were the wood stork, great egret, snowy egret, reddish egret, great blue heron, little blue heron, double-crested cormorant, anhinga, white ibis, American oystercatcher, and common moorhen.

13. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, Adventures in Bird Protection (New York: Appleton-Century, 1937), p. 41.

14. Ramona Vickers, “The Kroegel Family Story,” in The Original Tales from Sebastian (Vero Beach, Fla.: Sebastian River Area Historical Society, 1992), p. 45.

15. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734–1777 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992), p. 685.

16. Author interview with Douglas Kroegel.

17. Author interview with Janice Kroegel Timinsky (June 20, 2007), Sebastian, Fla.

18. “Paul Kroegel (1864–1948),” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Conservation Files, Pelican Island, Fla.

19. Westfahl and Keyes, One Person Can Make a Difference, p. 6.

20. Ted Williams, “The Second Century,” Audubon (June 2003), p. 73.

21. George Laycock, Wild Refuges (Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1969), pp. 12–20.

22. Frank M. Chapman, “Introduction,” in Adventures in Bird Protection (New York: Appleton-Century, 1937), p. xiv.

23. John Muir, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), p. 101.

24. Frank Chapman, Autobiography of a Bird-Lover (New York: Appleton-Century, 1933), pp. 45–46.

25. Frank Chapman, Bird Studies with a Camera (New York: Appleton, 1900), p. 1.

26. Ibid., p. 3.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid., pp. 196–199.

29. Ibid., p. 207.

30. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (content source), J. Emmett Duffy (topic ed.), “History of Pelican Island National Wild-life Refuge,” in Cutler J. Cleveland (ed.), Encyclopedia of Earth (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). (First published October 16, 2006; last revised January 31, 2007; retrieved September 13, 2007.)

31. Robert E. Kohler, All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity 1850–1950 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006), p. 170.

32. Chapman, Autobiography of a Bird-Lover, pp. 88–90.