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Digital Object Type Rare birds documentation form
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Description Records Committee review for a Groove-billed Ani at Jacob Krumm Wildlife Area in Jasper County, IA on October 19, 1987. Includes a record review document with votes, an article and front page from Iowa Bird Life, excerpts from American Birds, and twelve documentation forms submitted to the committee.
Related Genres Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
Sort Date 1987-10-19 - 1993-09-07
People / Organizations
Time 5:30 PM
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Collection Iowa Ornithologists' Union | MS 166
Box 12
Folder 15
Contributing Institution Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives
Creator / Author Koenig, Darwin
Contributors Dinsmore, James J. Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934- Bendorf, Carl J. Cecil, Robert I. Cummins, Raymond L. Kubik, Nicholas A. Moore, Francis L. Petersen, Peter C. Staudt, Thomas J. Zaletel, Hank Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee Fuller, James L
Topics Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
Birds Groove-billed Ani
Locations Jacob Krumm Nature Preserve
Map
Verbatim Locality [...] Jacob Krumm Wildlife Area, Jasper County, Iowa
Location Remarks The documentation forms do not include georeferences
Habitat
Extent 18 pages
Language(s) eng
Bibliographic Citation
Information Withheld
Individual Count 1
Occurrence Remarks The documentation form by Darwin Koenig is the earliest and the one that forms the basis of this record. Other documentation forms by Jim Fuller, Jim Dinsmore, Steve Dinsmore, Francis Moore, Thomas J. Staudt, Thomas H. Kent, Ray Cummins, Robert Cecil, Peter C. Petersen, Nicholas A. Kubik, Carl J. Bendorf, and Hank Zaletel were submitted later. Other observers include Chuck Fuller, Ann Barker, Phyllis Harris, Lewis Blevins, Dale Fye, Helen Fye, Corey Blevins, Brians Blevins, Ruth Green, Carl Hertz, Bob Myers, John Cecil, Tom Stone, Beth Brown, Cal Knight, Bernie Knight, Opal Uher, Jim Mairs, Pauline Mairs, Carol Thompson, Beth Proescholdt, Eugene Armstrong, Eloise Armstrong, and unidentified observers. | Elimination of similar species: [...] The ridge of the upper mandible was slightly lower than the crown of the head and did not curve sharply downward to meet the forehead (unlike the Smooth-billed Ani, C. ani, which has a high-ridged upper mandible, higher than the crown and curving sharply downward to meet the forehead). | The original documentation form event occurred around 17:30:00/17:50:00.
Occurrence Status present
Field Number 1987-24
Event Remarks Viewing Conditions: [...] The bird was foraging on the ground among the prairie grasses when it flushed, flying to a low tree branch about 20 feet away from where I was standing. The ani was observed for about 20 minutes at distances of 10 feet to 100 yards.
Supporting Documentation Brown WH. An annotated list of the birds of Iowa. Iowa State Journal of Science. 1971;45:387-469 | Dinsmore JJ, Kent TH, Koenig D, Petersen PC, & Roosa DM. Iowa birds. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. | Musgrove JW. The Groove-billed ani and mountain bluebird, specimens in Iowa collection. Iowa Bird Life. 1948;18:70.
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