Humans actually extiprated willets from much of their east coats range, becoming very rare along the coast notrh of Virginia by 1910. Field and Stream magazine (1904) had serial accounts of Our American Gamebirds. ... Fortunately, not long after this, regulations were enacted to rpotect migratory birds. In 1913, spring hunting was outlawed and even more siginficantly, in 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was passed, hwich banned market hunting of migratory brids, ...