Harry Oberholser letter to Oscar Allert regarding bird sightings, March 1, 1929
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Letter from Harry Oberholser to Oscar Allert dated March 1, 1929. Oberholser responds to a request from Allert by providing details about a couple of bird sightings. Oberholser also states that if Allert has any skins he wishes identified that he should send them to Washington with return postage.
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Oberholser, Harry C. (Harry Church), 1870-1963
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James Dinsmore letter to Oscar Allert regarding mounted bird specimens, September 1, 1978
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Letter from James Dinsmore to Oscar Allert dated September 1, 1978. Dinsmore tells Allert, who had donated many bird specimens, about the bird mounts kept in the Iowa State University vertebrate museum.
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Article submitted May, 1933. Philip DuMont recounts the history of the Passenger Pigeon in Iowa. This article was submitted to the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science in May, 1933 and was subsequently published in vol. 40.
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DuMont, Philip A. (Philip Atkinson), 1903-1996
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Passenger Pigeon
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Data on Iowa Red-tailed Hawks
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Research notes compiled from 1932-1933. In these notes Philip DuMont compiled a detailed list of all the Red-tailed Hawk specimens he could find in Iowa, classifying them by subspecies.
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A Proposed revision of the "Revised list of the Birds of Iowa"
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Open letter dated February 1934. As Philip DuMont prepares for a revision to the "Revised list of the Birds of Iowa" he notes that 35 of the species listed had not been verified with specimens collected in Iowa. He is still looking for Iowa specimens for 25 of the species listed.
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Report listing bird specimens collected. This report submitted by Philip DuMont lists the specimens he collected during 1934. These birds, eggs and nests are stored in his home in Des Moines with the exception of some specimens that were forwarded to Myron Swenk at the University of Nebraska for study.
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Northern Flicker Grasshopper Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Song Sparrow Black-billed Magpie Common Redpoll Dark-eyed Junco Horned Lark Eastern Screech-Owl
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Field Notes, Tom Morrissey, Davenport, 1956
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Field report with drawings for recovered birds at the WOC radio tower at Davenport in Scott County, IA on October 6, 1954, May 12 and 18, 1956, and June 1, 1956. It features the sighting of a Henslow's Sparrow on October 6, 1954. It was part of a letter from Thomas Morrisey to Robert L. King on June 2, 1956 and is part of the F.W. Kent Archives.
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Report on Gray Jays sighted in Iowa in the fall of 1976 and winter of 1976/77 by Nicholas, S Halmi. This document was written as a response to an article by Gladys Black that was published in the Des Moines Register. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1977.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Magnificent Frigatebird circa 1896
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds Zoological specimens Taxidermy
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1896-01-01
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Records Committee review for a Magnificent Frigatebird at La Porte City in Black Hawk County, IA around 1896. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Note in Iowa Ornithologist 2:34 by Morton E. Peck, and referenced in two other publications.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for American Dipper at Forneys Lake State Wildlife Management Area in Fremont County in 1895
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Records Committee review for an American Dipper at Forneys Lake State Wildlife Management Area in Fremont County, IA in the spring of 1895 or 1896. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication A Dipper Specimen at Macedonia, Iowa in Iowa Bird Life 27(3):72 by George O. Hendrickson seen by Guido Louis Stempel and Mason Laut.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Rock Wren at Decatur County in 1872
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1873-01-01
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Records Committee review for several Rock Wrens at Decatur County, IA during October 1872. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication Notes on the Birds of Southern Iowa in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 15:229-243 by T. Martin Trippe, and referenced by ten other publications.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Groove-billed Ani near Iowa Lake in 1948
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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1948-12-01
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Records Committee review for a Groove-billed Ani near Iowa Lake in Osceola County, IA a few years before 1948. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication The Groove-billed Ani and Mountain Bluebird in Iowa Collection in Iowa Bird Life 18:70 by Jack W. Musgrove.
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Records Committee review for an Ibis species at Boone County, IA before 1907. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson identified by Carl Fritz Henning, and referenced in two other publications.
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Records Committee review for a Boreal Owl at Osage in Mitchell County, IA on March 25, 1916. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Preliminary List of the Birds of Floyd County Iowa in Wilson Bulletin 28:130-138 by Carroll Lane Fenton seen by Flora May Tuttle, and referenced by another publication.
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Records Committee review for a Boreal Owl captured near Osage in Mitchell County, IA in 1914. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication A Preliminary List of the Birds of Floyd County Iowa in the Wilson Bulletin 28:130-138 by C.L. Fenton, and referenced by another publication.
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Birds--Identification Ciconiiformes | Herons, Bitterns, Egrets, Ibises, and Storks Threskiornithidae | Ibises Rare birds Zoological specimens Taxidermy
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Records Committee review for an Ibis species at McGregor in Clayton County, IA during September 1905. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication Revised List of Birds of Iowa by Philip A. DuMont .
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Records Committee review for an Ibis species at Lake Okoboji in Dickinson County, IA around 1917. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication Revised List of Birds of Iowa by Philip A. DuMont in the Harry Tennant Collection.
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Records Committee review for a Black Rail at Black Hawk County, IA before 1907. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by G.W. Walters, and referenced by another publication.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black Rail at Fort Dodge in 1899
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Birds--Identification Rare birds Hunting Zoological specimens
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1907-03-01
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Records Committee review for a Black Rail at Fort Dodge in Webster County, IA on July 11, 1899. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by Melvin Somes, and referenced by another publication.
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Black Rail
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Fort Dodge
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black Rail at Burlington in 1889
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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1993-08-26
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Records Committee for a Black Rail at Burlington in Des Moines County, IA in 1889. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Report of the committee on state fauna in the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science 1:39-42 by C.C. Nutting, and referenced by two other publications.
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Black Rail
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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1890-01-01
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1993-08-26
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Records Committee review for a Scaled Quail at Tabor in Fremont County, IA on May 20, 1889. Includes a record review document with votes, the reviewed sighting record found in the publication The Blue Quail (Callipepla squamata) in Iowa by J.E. Todd in the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, and referenced by three other publications.
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes Tables (documents)
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Records Committee review for a Barrow's Goldeneye at Keokuk district in Lee County, IA on March 27, 1888. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of the Des Moines Rapids in Auk 24:565-577 by William E. Praeger, and referenced by three other publications.
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes Tables (documents)
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Records Committee review for a Barrow's Goldeneye at Independence in Buchanan County, IA on October 11, 1892. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Report of committee on state fauna in the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 1(3):39-42 by C.C. Nutting seen by Robert E. Leach, and referenced by three other publications.
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Records Committee review for a Emperor Goose at Coralville in Johnson County, IA during the Fall of 1887. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Report of the committee on state fauna in the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 1(3):39-42 seen by J.T. Paintin, and referenced by another publication.
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Records Committee review for an Ibis species at Swan Lake in Johnson County, IA on August 10, 1954. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication Glossy Ibis at Swan Lake in Iowa Bird life 24:80 written by Alfred W. Meyer with a photograph by Frederick W. Kent, seen by Alfred W. Meyer. Specimen collected by Walter C. Thietje.
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