On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM Sandy Berger <sndbrgr...> wrote:
> I have 25 copies of Bird Lore dating from 1923-1928. The 1922 census is in
> one of the magazines and has counts from Fayetteville and Monticello.
> Reading these magazines is simply fascinating.
> Most of the CBCs were done by foot in many inches of snow. People didn’t
> own cars yet. There’s articles about thousands of Bald Eagles being killed
> in Alaska all for a bounty. There are articles about educating children,
> raising crows, field reports, and on and on.
>
> About Lano. He was on the Bird-Lore Advisory Counsel which placed new
> young birders with a person of authority on bird-life in their area. He was
> listed in the Jan/Feb 1928 magazine, but his obit said he passed in July at
> the age of 65.
>
> I plan on putting these copies in the silent auction next Spring at the
> state meeting here in Fort Smith. They were found in a closet at Northside
> High School some years ago and given to me. I’ve wondered if they belonged
> to Ruth Armstrong.
>
> Sandy Berger
> Fort Smith
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM Allan Mueller <akcmueller...>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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