Re: [mou-net] Duck Stamps

[Mark Johnson]

I have found that if a post office does not carry Federal Duck Stamps, or
is out of them, they can order them from their central supplier and will
even set one aside for you (at their discretion).

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:21 AM Anthony Smith  wrote:

> I've found that not all post offices carry them.
>
> Tony Smith, St. Louis Park
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Re: [mou-net] yellow-billed cuckoo window kill

[Mark Johnson]

When riding my bicycle home from work on Monday I noticed a Yellow-billed
Cuckoo flattened in 4th street under the skyway between Hanson Hall and The
Carlson school bldg on the West Bank.

Distinctive rufous wing feathers caught my eye. When I stopped yellow lower
mandible clearly visible.

Mark Dudek Johnson

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Tanya Beyer 
wrote:

> No one I think has mentioned that hawks--a merlin that I know of, at
> least--sometimes seem to use windows as a way of getting bird prey, driving
> them in for a collision. I had heard of this from a friend, than last fall
> experienced what sounded like an explosion just after I had shut off
> propane outside our summer home. Noticing a merlin on the railing and
> thinking it a coincidence at first, I checked everything I could think of
> to check for  some kind of gas explosion, at length finding a ruffed
> grouse, still alive but in shock, on the ground underneath our outdoor
> propane fridge. On the window alongside the fridge some ruffed grouse
> feathers were clinging; the grouse was still alive but in heavy shock. ​I
> suppose if this were the case here the cuckoos would be carried off as prey
> and never seen...
>
> *Tanya Beyer*
>
> http://www.epiphaniesafield.com/home-page.html
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Randy Frederickson <
> fredericks...@willmar.k12.mn.us> wrote:
>
> > My interpretation of that data is that being cuckoos are prone to
> > understory and dense vegetation flight, they are also more prone to
> > window collisions.  I think this would account for both data sets, and
> > the peregrines find them after the window strikes??
> > Has anyone ever seen a falcon chasing a cuckoo?  I have not, nor have
> > I ever seen them chasing anything smaller than a gull or
> > pigeonoops and lots of shorebirds.
> >
> >
> > Randy Frederickson
> >
> > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 6:59 PM, linda whyte  wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting --just this week, I learned that 3 cuckoos, 1
> yellow-billed,
> > 2
> > > black-billed-- or the other way around, I don't recall--were brought in
> > for
> > > treatment of serious, identical, neck wounds that were probably caused
> by
> > > peregrines. They were found in downtown St. Paul, close to a peregrine
> > nest
> > > area.
> > > Linda Whyte
> > >> On Jun 10, 2016 3:29 PM, "JULIAN SELLERS" 
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps 20 to 30 years ago, one of the leaders of the Twin Cities
> raptor
> > >> community (Bud Tordoff, I believe) presented a program about Peregrine
> > >> Falcons to a downtown St. Paul firm where my wife was employed.  He
> > stated
> > >> that the most common prey species identified at the nest box on the
> > Bremer
> > >> Building was Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  (Who would have guessed?)  Maybe
> the
> > >> cuckoos you've found were also "peregrine leavings."
> > >> Julian
> > >>
> > >>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:35:10 -0600
> > >>> From: m...@moumn.org
> > >>> Subject: [mou-net] yellow-billed cuckoo window kill
> > >>> To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
> > >>>
> > >>> (Posted by Todd Starich  via moumn.org)
> > >>>
> > >>> Two summers ago I found a dead black-billed cuckoo, apparent victim
> of
> > >> hitting a
> > >>> window, on the north side of Moos Tower on the UMN East Bank. One day
> > >> last
> > >>> summer I found another dead black-billed cuckoo, maybe within 15 ft
> of
> > >> where I
> > >>> had found one the summer before. Today I came across a dead
> > yellow-billed
> > >>> cuckoo about 30 yards away, by the adjacent PWB. This is not a
> > prominent
> > >>> window-kill graveyard-- I bike through there every workday of the
> year,
> > >> and it is
> > >>> rare to see dead birds other than peregrine leavings. So the
> proportion
> > >> of cuckoo
> > >>> window kill compared to other birds seems exceptionally high.
> Something
> > >> that
> > >>> cuckoos see that other birds in general don't??
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Re: [mou-net] Topical Kingbird

[Mark Johnson]

The MN zoo in Apple Valley was a good idea to check with.
Another, albeit remote, place to check for escapees would be the Como Zoo
in St. Paul.
They have the tropical aviary there. The last time I was there, I don't
believe they had Tropical Kingbirds.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Richard rlmiller2...@comcast.net wrote:

 This morning at the previously reported site, Bruce Fall, Karl Roe and I
 saw and heard the Kingbird do the Tropical Kingbird call, thus indentifying
 it.  Afterward, I spoke to the MN Zoo people who care for their tropical
 birds to rule out that as a possible source for the bird.  I was told they
 were aware of the MOU postings but the Kingbird was not theirs.
 Dick Miller


 
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Re: [mou-net] Passenger Pigeon Project historical records website

[Mark Johnson]

According to the book it was never recovered.

The book is a fascinating read, all of the places he birded, a tamarack
swamp where the Mpls impound lot is now...

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mary McGrath mc...@comcast.net wrote:

 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
 
 
  
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Re: [mou-net] Passenger Pigeon Project historical records website

[Mark Johnson]

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
 
 
  
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