Was it ever found? On Sep 12, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Mark Johnson wrote:
> 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 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
