Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Date of this Version
12-2013
Citation
Wright, “Hayden, Tristram, and a Pigeon from ‘Nebraska,’” from Nebraska Bird Review (December 2013) 81(4).
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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