[mou] Bird Quotes with historical context

[Brad Bolduan]

Not my usual type of thread, but I'll bite.

First, due entirely to the vintage of my choice I feel inclined to put this
quote in a historical perspective.  It would date back to just 13 years
after the Migratory Bird Treaty, 26 years after the incorporation of the
National Audubon Society, and 31 years after the Lacey Act. It would predate
a the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act by one year, the
Migratory Bird and Game Mammal Treaty with Mexico by five years, and the
founding of Duck's Unlimited by six years.  It was published two years after
the creation of "The Minnesota Bird Club" and the first issue of "the
Flicker", but one year before Robert's "Bird's of Minnesota".  Unbelievable
as it may seem it was also a mere 18 years prior to Bob Janssen taking
control as editor of "The Flicker".  There are a few things to be thankful
for on this Thanksgiving day.

Anyhow, being a mere four lines long (and not living up to my hype), my
selection is Dorothy Parker's "Ornithology for Beginners" from Death and
Taxes published in 1931.


Brad Bolduan
Windom, MN





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Subject: [mou] Bird Quotes


Have a favorite bird quote?

Mine is probably the biblical "command" to bird :), "Look at the birds of
the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your
heavenly Father feeds them."  (Matthew 6:26).

Now if I could just find a similar reference for listing....

Al Schirmacher
Princeton, MN
Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties