Walkinshaw, Lawrence H, Lawrence H. Walkinshaw Papers, c. 1916-1991
Physical Description:
1 field book
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 6 Folder 20
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Maps
Place:
United States
Michigan
Florida
Osceola
Brevard
Chippewa
Schoolcraft
Marquette
Iron
Alger
Delta
Missaukee
Montcalm
Shiawassee
Ingham
Date Range:
1987
Start Date:
19870101
End Date:
1987
Abstract:
The typed notebook documents L. Walkinshaw's observations of birds in Florida and Michigan, January - 1987. The notes contain a variety of formats and content of observations of birds and their nests including date, type of bird, locations. Additionally more detailed notes include nest numbers, date, location (county, section, latitude and longitude, and sometimes directions) and descriptions of nests (construction, measurements, surrounding environment), parents (behavior), eggs (quantity, measurements, weight, description); table of bird observations from Florida headed with month; birds first seen for the year in Michigan (type, quantity, county, town, section, date); list of fields trips observing Sandhill Cranes and other birds in Michigan (date, county, township, range section, hours in the field, miles walked or driven, cranes seen); hand drawn maps of nest locations; journal style notes are filled in through out the notebook. Some notes at the end are hand written. Polk, Brevard, and Osceola county in Florida; Chippewa, Schoolcraft, Marquette, Iron, Alger, Delta, Missaukee, Montcalm, Shiawassee,and Ingham.
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