Date: 11/15/25 7:53 pm From: Allan Mueller <akcmueller...> Subject: Re: Fayetteville's First Christmas Bird Count: Bird-Lore Vol 23 (1921)
Thanks for posting this.
Allan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM Leif Anderson <
<leifforesteranderson...> wrote:
> 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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