Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Pacific Loon at Burlington circa 1895

Records Committee review for a Pacific Loon at Burlington, IA, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, around 1895. Includes a record review document with votes, photographs of the specimen, notes about the specimen, two letters about the sighting from George Schrimper to Ronald E. Goetz, a letter from Ronald Goetz to Tom Kent, the original sighting record found in the publication Report of the committee on state fauna in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 2:43-51 by C.C. Nutting seen by Paul Bartsch, and referenced in four other publications.

Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee

Kent, Thomas H. (Thomas Hugh), 1934-
Goetz, Ronald E.
Schrimper, George D.
Illinois Ornithological Society
University of Iowa

1894-12-31/1994-11-04

Birds--Identification
Rare birds
Ornithological illustration
Zoological specimens
Taxidermy
Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica)

Hersey, F.S.
Savage, David L.
DuMont, Philip A. (Philip Atkinson), 1903-1996
Anderson, Rudolph Martin, 1876-1961
Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1858-1927

Burlington

40.80754, -91.11292

11 pages

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