Ornithology -- Fieldwork
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur L. Reagh Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2023-02-01
Content Description
This collection contains 2 notebooks of handwritten ornithological sightings from West Roxbury, Massachusetts, dating from 1885-1901, 1 notebook of histology laboratory from 1894-1895 containing detailed illustrations of microscopic biological tissues, and a compilation of Pasquaney nature lectures series from 1897.
Dates:
1885 - 1897
Heath Hen Reports by the Federation of the Bird Clubs of New England
Collection
Identifier: A2024-06-01
Content Description
The heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido) is a now extinct subspecies of the greater prairie chicken. While at one point extremely common, the birds became locally extinct on the mainland and only existed on Martha's Vineyard by the late 1800s. The continuing decline was noticed by ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who reported his observations to the Federation of the Bird Clubs of New England in 1925. The Federation then took immediate action to try to preserve the remaining birds through...
Dates:
1925 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1926