*A Love Affair with Birds: * * The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts *
by Sue Leaf, author Join Sue Leaf May 23 at 7:30 to hear about the father of Minnesota ornithology, T. S. Roberts, who witnessed the last days of the Passenger Pigeon, swooping in great flocks through downtown Minneapolis, saw hundreds of Upland Sandpipers stopping over on prairie in northeast Minneapolis, and documented myriad migrating waterfowl on the Minneapolis chain of lakes. After an illustrious career as a medical doctor, Roberts quit to take an unpaid position at the U of M, teaching the state's first ornithology course and guiding the natural history museum to national acclaim. He wrote *The Birds of Minnesota*, advised Minnesota's first Audubon chapter, Minneapolis Audubon (still in existence) and was crucial to the establishment of many wildlife refuges. All this, and a genuinely nice guy, a man's man and a favorite with the ladies! Sue Leaf’s book on T.S. Roberts will be published May 2 by the University of Minnesota Press. ** *When: *Please join us May 23th from *7:00-7:30 pm *to socialize over cookies. A brief business meeting and the featured speaker begin at *7:30 pm *. The meeting will conclude before 9:00 pm. ** *Where: *Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center 3815 American Blvd E, Bloomington. Take Hwy 494 to 34th Ave. Go south to American Blvd; turn left and go 2 blocks. Center will be on your right. Enter through the door at the middle of the building. Also, accessible by Hiawatha Light Rail line, The Visitor Center is a couple of blocks east of the American Blvd. *All MRVAC meetings are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.* Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
