[mou-net] 1930's bird guide question

2009-08-24 Thread n0pfy
I was at a bird banding in Lakeville a couple of weekends ago and the gentlemen running the banding had a book from the 1930's that had an interesting way of identifying birds through a series of questions like Bird is mostly brown or not mostly brown depending on the answer to the question it

Re: [mou-net] 1930's bird guide question

2009-08-24 Thread Manley Olson
The classic bird book for Minnesota is The Birds of Minnesota by Thomas S Roberts, published in 1932 and revised in 1936.A large part of Volume2 is titled Keys and Descriptions for the Identification of Minnesota Birds. This was also printed as a separate publication and I suspect it is what