Nebraska Ornithologists' Union

 

Authors

Rick Wright

Date of this Version

12-2013

Document Type

Article

Citation

Wright, “Hayden, Tristram, and a Pigeon from ‘Nebraska,’” from Nebraska Bird Review (December 2013) 81(4).

Comments

Copyright 2013 Nebraska Ornithologists' Union. Used by permission.

Abstract

A passenger pigeon skin in the World Museum in Liverpool, England, was collected during an expedition to Nebraska and Dakota led by Gouverneur K. Warren between 1855 and 1857 and later cataloged by geologist and naturalist Ferdinand V. Hayden. For a time it was in the collection of Henry Baker Tristram, a famous naturalist and a founder of the British Ornithologists’ Union. Passenger pigeons were once “quite abundant” along the Missouri River.

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