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Title
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Thedford Bird Records, Thomas County, Nebraska, May 27-June 10, 1903
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Date
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Feb.-May, 1903
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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[10 ] June 4 Warm and sunny. We followed first the north shore of Hackberry, where I took photographs of a young sharp-tailed grouse. - Then we collected plankton with the Birge net, in a pond north of the lake. Afterward, we cut across to Watt's Lake killdeer pied-billed grebe black tern yellow-headed blackbird prairie horned lark red-winged blackbird spoonbill gadwall blue-winged teal coot mallard -11 spp. Nests found: pied-bill grebe - 414 coot - 8 killdeer - 2 0 June 5 A lovely day, after our hectic weather. At Dewey Lake: ringed-billled gull At Willow Lake: We watched a red-breaster merganser flutter across it. At Marsh Lake: black tern Forster's tern red-winged blackbird yellow-headed blackbird yellowthroat coot black-crowned night heron mallard pintail Am. bittern long-billed marsh wren green-winged teal Wilson's phalarope long-tailed chat killdeer prairie chicken redhead -19 spp.
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
