THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1948.
ACE BIRD MAN
To get this close-up of an ospray family, photographer Allan Cruickshank built a blind 60 feet up in a spruce.
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Allan Cruickshank camouflaged PHOTOGRAPHIC ability is only part of the needed to prowess
be- come America's aco bird Allan Cruickshank, who hns an unchal- lenged grip on thut title, lectures for the U.S. National Audubon Society, is as much at home atop & 60-foot-spruce as on the ground and can imitate the songs and calls of 50 specles of birds.
To gather his
prize collection of some 40,000 bird negatives, Cruick- shunk has roamed through fields, swamps and forests in nearly every state and many foreign countries. He has scaled the cliffs of Bonaventure Island with ropes, spent days in a blind
in a Carolina marsh and has fallen out of trees dozen times. Only once has Cruickshank broken more than his camera in such a tumble. A few years ago, at the Audubon Nature Camp in Maine, where Allan is head in- structor on birds each summer, ho plunged fifty feet from an osprey nest atop a white pine. He made Bure his camera was not injured in that drop, but cracked two ribs.
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Cruickshank used imitate bird calls to wake up guests at the Audubon cump, but he switched to an accordion by popular request. It seems that two ladies from Brooklyn heard a real bird at 4.30 a.m. and, mistaking it for Cruickshank's realistic re- veille, hurriedly dressed and appeared at a dark and empty dining hall.
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Cruickshank's pictures have appeared in scores of publications, have been re- produced in advertisements, on billboards, in encyclo peding and pictorial calendars. He recently brought out his second book, "Wings in the Wilder- ness," containing the top pictures of a decade and a half of camera wanderings.
CRUICKSHANK'S WIFE, 'Helen, took this picture of Allan in one of the perilous perches from which ho makes his prize bird photographs, like that of the ospreys shown at left,
Cruickshank's goal is to be the first man to photograph in their natural surroundings every one of the 700 species of wild birds found in the U.S. Above, 'wild
ducks take wing in a swamp in the Carolinas.
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PICTURES like that of the pheasant family above call for patience, skill and a know-.. ledge of ornithology. Cruickshank's mastery has won him inclusion in "Who's Who In America," membership in the American Ornithologists' Union and 4,000 lecture engage- menta. Ho spends a good part of his life în tree tops, met his wife one day as she was photographing green herons in an apple tree..
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