Date: 12/25/25 6:51 am From: Timothy Barksdale <timothy.barksdale...> Subject:
Sandy, I completely agree with Jeff and Kannan.
In my research on Missouri's wildlife, about 8 years ago I found a
bibliography by Daniel McKinley. McKinley began his teaching career in
Winston-Salem NC after an MS in Wildlife at University of Missouri. Part of
his work came from scouring old newspapers and publications across the
Ozarks, which is not too dissimilar from how Otto Widman accumulated his
information to create the "Preliminary Checklist of the Birds of
Missouri-published 1907.
Today's generation has become obsessed with data and photos often removing
perfectly legitimate records due to it being "not documented."
Nearly all of our information regarding original abundance of (for
instance) Black Bears is due to the notes and reports of folk like Henry
Rowe Schoolcraft or in another instance- Karl Bodmer or George Catlin's
paintings. I recently found a painting of Catlin's which showed the area
not far from my home. In 1832, all of these now wooded hills were all grass
covered, trees were scattered and restricted to the immediate edges of
watercourses only !
Thank you for preserving these and i do hope you will consider getting them
into a "permanent" archival situation. They are likely invaluable and may
be extraordinarily unique!
Very best to all for a birdy 2026,
Tim Barksdale
Mokane, MO
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:55:16 -0600
From: Jeffrey Short <bashman...>
Subject: Re: Fayetteville's First Christmas Bird Count: Bird-Lore Vol 23
(1921)
Sandy,
Before these Bird Lore copies are donated, I’d like to peruse them to
compare them to later studies. My 1975 MS Thesis (under Doug James) on
relationships of breeding bird communities were based on data gleaned from
American Birds, Audubon Field Notes, Audubon Magazine and Bird Lore from
1938-73. (I also published part of the study in Condor.) As Kannan,
mentions, they are a treasure and should be archived at some point.
Merry holidays,
Jeff Short
From: The Birds of Arkansas Discussion List [mailto:
<ARBIRD-L...>] On Behalf Of Ragupathy Kannan
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:35 PM
To: <ARBIRD-L...>
Subject: Re: Fayetteville's First Christmas Bird Count: Bird-Lore Vol 23
(1921)
Sandy, so nice of you to have saved these. They may be too precious to be
auctioned away. Perhaps we should explore giving it to UA library to their
special papers collection.
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, 8:00 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.
