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 you saw being used. Like most of the bird
identification books prior to Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the
Birds(1934), it is most useful when one has the bird in the hand as
banders do. [email protected] wrote:
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 would ask another question, finally narrowing
it down to one or 2 species.
Of course I didn't write down the name of the book (thinking I could remember it, NOT). I thought the author had the last name Roberts but my searches have come up empty.
Does anyone know what the name and author of this book could be?
Mark
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