Date: 11/14/25 3:00 pm From: Leif Anderson <leifforesteranderson...> Subject: Re: Fayetteville's First Christmas Bird Count: Bird-Lore Vol 23 (1921)
Great find Todd. Interesting is finding 25 N Bobwhite on one count.
Nowadays 25 might be all we get in the entire state
On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM Ragupathy Kannan <
<0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> What a gem from the past, Todd. James and Neal say the following about
> Albert Lano in *Arkansas Birds*.
>
> *Albert Lano, a pharmacist from Minnesota, moved to Arkansas in
> 1912.....Though blind in later life, Lano nevertheless continued his
> lifelong interest in birds, prepared a modest collection of bird skins, and
> published six short papers between 1913 and 1927 about birds found in the
> state. *
>
> One of Lano's papers was on the Prairie Chicken in Arkansas. It reported
> that on 15 November 1919, a bird was shot by a farmer 8 miles west of
> Fayetteville. Another of Lano's papers described the electrocution of a
> Great Blue Heron.
> On Friday 14 November, 2025 at 02:22:41 pm GMT-6, Todd Ballinger <
> <todd.ballinger...> wrote:
>
>
> I've been doing some research on the history of birding in Washington
> County and stumbled on this gem in Bird-Lore, one of the first birding
> journals. Albert Lano, by the way, was blind and a professor at the
> university. Here's the title page and the paragraph on the 1920
> Fayetteville census:
> [image: image.png]
> We were the only submission from Arkansas that year. Looking at earlier
> issues, it looks like Dewitt leads the state as the first to hold a
> Christmas bird count. Here's the description of their 1917 "Christmas
> census." (in the 1918 edition of Bird-Lore)
>
> --Todd Ballinger, Fayetteville
> [image: image.png]
>
>
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