Here is a postcard I have of the Passenger Pigeon that was in the Science Museum and Planetarium at the Minneapolis Public Library back in the '60s. I think this is the same bird collected in 1895. It appears to be a male, and note the nest and egg. The Science Museum/Planetarium was closed and its collections absorbed by the Bell Museum when the old library was torn down.There was a rumor that one of the passenger pigeons in Minnesota, either this one or the one at the Science Museum in St. Paul, had originally been mounted with its (dried) organs intact, but they were removed at some point and discarded.
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:37:30 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [mou-net] Passenger Pigeon Project historical records website > To: [email protected] > > 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
