In the Biography of Thomas Sadler Roberts that came out last year, " A Love Affair with Birds", there is a description of a mounted Passenger Pigeon that was stolen from the Bell museum.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Matthew Boisen <docma...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi allHaving quite a time getting around the restrictions and uploading > errors on MOU, but I think I finally found a way to post to the MOU Gallery > the image of the postcard from the Science Museum and Planetarium from the > old Minneapolis Library. This is of a male Passenger Pigeon, nest and egg > that was likely the specimens collected in Minneapolis in June of 1895. > > > http://moumn.org/gallery/pictures/9702.jpg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:37:30 -0500 > > From: gpanders...@msn.com > > Subject: [mou-net] Passenger Pigeon Project historical records website > > To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU > > > > This organization has compiled a mass of records and citations of PAPI > > observations in all 50 states (thanks Joel Greenberg). You can click on > > each state and be astonished, or unpleasantly surprised. Extinction is > > forever. > > > > > > > > This quote is from the treatment for MN: > > > > "The last record for the state, as mentioned above, was the nest, male, > and > > egg taken in June 21, 1895 in Minneapolis. It is, in fact, the last nest > and > > egg known of a wild bird from anywhere. Both the nest and the egg are on > > display at the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota." > > > > > > > > This quote is from the treatment for WI: > > > > "The largest recorded nesting of Passenger Pigeons in U.S. history took > > place in central Wisconsin in 1871. A conservative estimate of the > nesting > > area was 850 square miles, and population estimates put the number of > > nesting pigeons at 136 million. Many recorded descriptions of this > nesting > > exist in historic articles, books and other publications." > > > > see also the speech given by Aldo Leopold. > > > > > > > > <http://passengerpigeon.org/> http://passengerpigeon.org/ > > > > > > > > gordon andersson > > > > st paul > > > > > > ---- > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- <http://www.thecedar.org> Mark Dudek Johnson Director of Events Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave South Minneapolis MN 55454 U.S.A. cell: 612-226-2307 fax: 612-338-1687 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
