According to the book it was never recovered. The book is a fascinating read, all of the places he birded, a tamarack swamp where the Mpls impound lot is now...
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mary McGrath <[email protected]> wrote: > Was it ever found? > > On Sep 12, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Mark Johnson wrote: > > > In the Biography of Thomas Sadler Roberts that came out last year, " A > Love > > Affair with Birds", there is a description of a mounted Passenger Pigeon > > that was stolen from the Bell museum. > > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Matthew Boisen <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > <http://www.thecedar.org> > > Mark Dudek Johnson > > Director of Events > > Cedar Cultural Center > > 416 Cedar Ave South > > Minneapolis MN 55454 > > U.S.A. > > cell: 612-226-2307 > > fax: 612-338-1687 > > > > ---- > > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > -- <http://www.thecedar.org> Mark Dudek Johnson Director of Events Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave South Minneapolis MN 55454 U.S.A. cell: 612-226-2307 fax: 612-338-1687 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
