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: [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
