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Summary of bird banding Item Info
- Title:
- Summary of bird banding
- Creator (Person):
- Bartlett, Wesley H.
- Date Created:
- 1937-04-01/1937-04-30
- Description:
- A report written by Wesley H. Bartlett describing the history of bird banding, including a brief overview and timeline of the practice of banding started by Audubon in 1803. Also covered are the qualifications a person must meet to be a small bird banding station operator, details on the reporting of bird banding activities, descriptions of the birds banded and later captured (return, repeat, or foreign return), and the type of baits and traps to use in order to maintain safety for the birds. Also includes details on the count and species of birds banded at Parsons College.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bird banding Bird watching Birds--Migration Ornithology--Methodology Owls Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
- Subject (Person):
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
- Subject (Organization):
- United States. Bureau of Biological Survey Fairfield Bird Club American Bird Banding Association
- Location:
- Iowa Parsons College
- Latitude:
- 42.00027; 41.01669
- Longitude:
- -93.50049; -91.96684
- Language:
- eng
- Source:
- Fairfield (Iowa) Bird Club Records
- Call Number:
- MS 386
- Box:
- 1
- Folder Number:
- 10
- Finding Aid Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9px8v
- Contributing Institution:
- Iowa State University. Special Collections and University Archives
- Publisher:
- Iowa State University. Library
- Extent:
- 11 pages
- Genre:
- reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Digital Collection Title:
- Fairfield (Iowa) Bird Club collection
- Digital Collection Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9r785p8g
- Related Resource:
- Avian Archives of Iowa Online (avIAn)
- Avian Identifier:
- 10379
- Identifier:
- fairfieldbirdclub93
- Item Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9cr5nh56
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Summary of bird banding", Fairfield (Iowa) Bird Club Collection, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9cr5nh56
Rights
- Rights:
- This item is protected by copyright and related rights. However, the rights-holder is unidentified or unlocatable. If you have information that can contribute to identifying or locating the rights-holder, please notify the Iowa State University Library, Digital Scholarship and Initiatives.