Thomas J. Staudt letter to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Birds--Research
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1977-12-01
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1978-02-28
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Letter from Thomas J. Staudt to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings in the Iowa City area. Notes discussing sightings of a Carolina Wren and a Pine Grosbeak are noted. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of winter, 1977-1978.
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Staudt, Thomas J.
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Carolina Wren Pine Grosbeak White-winged Crossbill Barred Owl Purple Finch Hoary Redpoll Golden Eagle Pileated Woodpecker Bufflehead
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Cedar Rapids Davenport Hickory Hill Park Iowa City Saint Joseph Cemetery
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Thomas H. Kent letter to James L. Fuller regarding editing the field reports, February 5, 1992
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Correspondence
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Bird watching Birds--Research
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1992-02-05
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Thomas H. Kent letter to James L. Fuller regarding editing the field reports of fall 1991. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of fall 1991.
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
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Iowa
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Thomas H. Kent letter to James J. Dinsmore regarding the sighting of a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, July 12, 1986
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Birds--Identification
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1986-07-12
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field notes contributed by Thomas H. Kent in a letter to James J. Dinsmore regarding the sighting by Dolly McClaflin of a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of summer 1986.
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
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Lost Nation
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Thomas H. Kent letter to James J. Dinsmore regarding the design and editing of the summer field report for Iowa Bird Life, August 29, 1987
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Correspondence
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Birds--Research Ornithology--Methodology Ornithology--Periodicals
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1987-08-29
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Letter from Thomas H. Kent to James J. Dinsmore regarding the design and editing of the summer field report for Iowa Bird Life, August 29, 1987. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1987.
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
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Prairie Falcon Black-bellied Whistling-Duck House Finch Great-tailed Grackle
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Ames Iowa City
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Thomas H. Kent letter to James J. Dinsmore regarding corrections from the spring report, 1984
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Correspondence
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Bird watching
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1984-03-01
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1984-05-31
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Thomas H. Kent letter to James J. Dinsmore was regarding corrections from the spring report, 1984. Letter was undated. Changes were made regarding sightings of Whimbrels, Tundra Swans in Charles City, and a Western Tanager near Sabula. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of summer 1984.
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
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Western Tanager Whimbrel Tundra Swan
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Charles City Sabula
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Thomas H. Kent letter to Dick Bierman regarding Swainson's Hawk sightings, April 24, 1992
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1992-04-24
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Thomas H. Kent letter to Dick Bierman regarding Swainson's Hawk sightings. The letter notes that the sighting report will be recommended for publication in Iowa Bird Life. Field notes are included with the letter. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of spring 1992. This is a response to https://avian.lib.iastate.edu/documents/4762/view
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
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Swainson's Hawk
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Fremont County
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Thomas H. Kent letter to Charles Fuller requesting additional bird sighting details, December 2, 1991
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Correspondence
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Bird watching
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1991-12-02
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Letter from Thomas H. Kent to Charles Fuller requesting additional field report information including dates and location clarifications. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of fall 1991. This item is requesting additional information from item https://avian.lib.iastate.edu/documents/4721/view and is related to https://avian.lib.iastate.edu/documents/4723/view.
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
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Iowa
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Thomas H. Kent and Carl J. Bendorf letter to regular field report contributors regarding a field report format, April 14, 1985
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Correspondence
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Bird watching Birds--Identification Ornithology--Methodology
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1985-04-14
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Tom Kent and Carl Bendorf letter to regular field report contributors informing about the use of a standardized form for gathering and reporting data on bird sightings.
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Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934- Bendorf, Carl J.
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Iowa
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Thomas Calderwood Stephens letter to officers of the Iowa Ornithologists' Union regarding the future of the organization, October 16, 1923
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Correspondence
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Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1923-10-16
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Letter from Thomas Calderwood Stephens discussing the need for boosting membership and encouraging more participation from current members. Includes two copies of the letter. One copy is typewritten on the Iowa Ornithologists' Union letterhead and the other typewritten copy does not have a letterhead.
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Stephens, Thomas Calderwood, 1876-1948 Iowa Ornithologists' Union
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Sioux City
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Terry Cox letter to Thomas Kent regarding Golden Plover sighting, December 14, 1980
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1980-12-14
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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A letter sent from Terry Cox to Thomas Kent in order to clarify the date that two Golden Plover were sighted. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of Fall 1980.
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Cox, Terry
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American Golden Plover
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Sugar Bottom Campground
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas Kent regarding the Greater Scaup and other winter sightings, March 5, 1981
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Birds--Identification Water birds Weather
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1981-03-05
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Tanya Bray letter notes the presence of Greater Scaup and speculates that their numbers might be related to the mild weather. Included with the letter is an annotated list of birds sighted for the winter season. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of winter 1980-1981.
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Bray, Tanya
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Greater Scaup
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Lake Manawa DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge Omaha
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas Kent regarding spring migration, May 30, 1981
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Birds--Identification
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1981-05-30
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Tanya Bray letter contains an annotated list of birds sighted by herself and others, mostly around western Iowa. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of spring 1981.
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Bray, Tanya
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper
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Fremont County Lake Manawa Mills County Riverton Wildlife Management Area Willow Slough State Game Management Area Keg Lake Wildlife Management Area
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas Kent regarding clarifications to her previous letter, December 4, 1980
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1980-12-04
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Tanya Bray clarifies that in the bird sighting list sent with her letter dated November 30, 1980 it was Andy Saunders who reported seeing the Sandhill Cranes and that Cass and Mills refer to counties. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of Fall 1980.
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Bray, Tanya
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Sandhill Crane
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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas Kent regarding birds seen around the DeSoto Bend area, November 30, 1980
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Anseriformes | Ducks, Geese, and Swans
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1980-11-30
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas Kent contains an annotated list of birds seen around DeSoto Bend and other areas of western Iowa during the fall of 1980. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of Fall 1980.
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Bray, Tanya
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Purple Finch Snow Goose Green-winged Teal Sandhill Crane Mallard
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Forneys Lake State Wildlife Management Area Mills County DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge Omaha
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas Kent regarding bird sightings, Fall 1985
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Charadriiformes | Shore-birds, Gulls, and Auks Water birds
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1985-08-01
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1985-11-30
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Letter discusses IOU and NOU meetings and includes an annotated list of birds sighted by Tanya Bray and others. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of Fall 1985.
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Bray, Tanya
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Common Eider
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Forneys Lake Lake Manawa Mills County DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge Willow Slough State Game Management Area Keg Lake Wildlife Management Area MidAmerican Energy Ponds
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas H. Kent regarding field notes, August 14, 1982
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1982-08-14
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field notes contributed by Tanya Bray in a letter to Thomas H. Kent regarding incorrect dates for shorebird sighting as reported in Iowa Birdlife. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of spring 1982.
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Bray, Tanya
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Marbled Godwit Dunlin Semipalmated Plover Willet Hudsonian Godwit
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Iowa
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas H. Kent regarding bird sightings, October 10, 1982
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Birds--Research Ornithology--Methodology Charadriiformes | Shore-birds, Gulls, and Auks
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1982-10-10
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Bird sightings of the Western Sandpiper and Greater Yellowlegs contributed by Tanya Bray in a letter to Thomas H. Kent. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of fall 1982.
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Bray, Tanya
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Greater Yellowlegs Western Sandpiper Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover
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Forneys Lake Blair
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas H. Kent regarding bird sightings, June 2, 1980
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching Birds--Identification Birdsongs Birds--Research Ornithology--Methodology
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1980-06-02
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field notes contributed by Tanya Bray in a letter to Thomas H. Kent, June 2, 1980. The letter includes identification information on the sighting of a Marbled Godwit. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of spring 1980.
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Bray, Tanya
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Marbled Godwit Barred Owl Long-billed Dowitcher Eastern Screech-Owl
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Mills County Pottawattamie County Pacific Junction
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Tanya Bray letter to Thomas H. Kent regarding bird sightings, July 29, 1980
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Correspondence Field notes Forms (documents)
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Bird watching Birds--Counting Anseriformes | Ducks, Geese, and Swans Laridae | Gulls and Terns Scolopacidae | Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and allies Parulidae | Warblers Weather
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1980-07-29
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field notes contributed by Tanya Bray in a letter to Thomas H. Kent, July 29, 1980 with observers Sandra Kovanda, Babs Padelford and Loren Padelford. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of summer 1980.
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Bray, Tanya
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Least Bittern American Bittern Willow Flycatcher Bell's Vireo Grasshopper Sparrow Yellow-billed Cuckoo American White Pelican Western Kingbird Dickcissel Snow Goose Northern Pintail Great Blue Heron
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Forneys Lake Lake Manawa State Park MidAmerican Energy Ponds
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Tanya Bray letter and field report to Thomas H. Kent, November 29, 1982
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird declines Bird watching Birds--Habitat Birds--Migration Birds--Nests Birds--Research Ciconiiformes | Herons, Bitterns, Egrets, Ibises, and Storks Ornithology--Methodology Charadriiformes | Shore-birds, Gulls, and Auks Vireonidae | Vireos Parulidae | Warblers
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1982-11-29
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field report was contributed by Tanya Bray and other observers in a letter to Thomas H. Kent. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of fall 1982.
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Bray, Tanya
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Orchard Oriole Savannah Sparrow Red-necked Phalarope Ruff
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Forneys Lake Lake Manawa DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge Lewis and Clark State Park
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Sue L. Schroder letter to Frederic Leopold regarding Wood Ducks, May 29, 1966
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Correspondence
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Country life Birdhouses Bird attracting
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1966-05-29
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Letter from Sue L. Schroder to Frederic Leopold regarding Wood Ducks, May 29, 1966. The letter expresses the enjoyment of a recent article about Wood Ducks that was published in the Des Moines Register. The letter also gives details about life in a home for the blind as well as requesting more stories about wildlife. This document is related to a reply from Frederic Leopold: https://avian.lib.iastate.edu/documents/3093/view
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Schroder, Sue L.
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Wood Duck
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Burlington Des Moines
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Steve Dinsmore email to Jim Dinsmore regarding Scott Rolfes sightings, July 29, 1998
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1998-07-29
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Printout of an email from Steve Dinsmore to Jim Dinsmore dated July 29, 1998. Steve Dinsmore passes on some summer bird sightings from Scott Rolfes. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1998.
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Dinsmore, Stephen J.
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Franklin's Gull Cattle Egret Osprey
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Big Creek State Park Polk County Saylorville Lake
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Steve Dinsmore email to Jim Dinsmore regarding late reports, August 25, 1999
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1999-08-25
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Printout of an email from Steve Dinsmore to Jim Dinsmore dated August 25, 1999. Steve Dinsmore passes on a couple of sightings from Scott Rolfes. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1999.
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Dinsmore, Stephen J.
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Willet Black Tern
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Saylorville Lake
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Stephen J. Dinsmore letter to Thomas H. Kent regarding bird sightings, April 27, 1992
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1992-04-27
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field notes contributed by Stephen J. Dinsmore in a letter to Thomas H. Kent. The bird sightings were observed by Brian Warson. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union Quarterly field report of spring 1992.
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Dinsmore, Stephen J.
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Green-backed Heron Turkey Vulture American White Pelican American Woodcock Eastern Whip-poor-will
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Lee County Montrose Donnellson Pool 19
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Stephen J. Dinsmore letter to Robert K. Myers regarding bird sightings, June 2, 1987
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Correspondence Field notes
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Bird watching
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1987-06-02
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N/A
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Field notes contributed by Stephen J. Dinsmore in a letter to Robert K. Myers, June 2, 1987. It includes reports from Bart M. Ballard and Dan Nivens with detailed observations. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists Union Quarterly field report of spring 1987.
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Dinsmore, Stephen J.
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American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Pectoral Sandpiper Lincoln's Sparrow
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Forneys Lake State Wildlife Management Area Riverton Wildlife Management Area
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