Parker GH at Audubon Community Nature Center Jamestown, NY

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Sara:

That is super that the Jamestown New York Audubon Nature Center is not "hiding under a bushel" the role that a Parker GH played in collecting those birds.

There is an impressive collection in Pepperell, MA, and your post has inspired me to seek any available info. on how the birds in the Lawrence Library, in Pepperell, MA were collected.

Not only did Sidney Shattuck collect and mount these birds in the display case depicted in the photo below, he built the case!

Additionally, the larger birds Mr. Shattuck collected and mounted, i. e. herons and raptors, are too tall and numerous to be accommodated by the case, and they are displayed atop book cases in other rooms of the library.


Here is an official description:

"Lawrence Library Special Collections & Gallery
15 MAIN STREET, PEPPERELL, MA

The centerpiece of the special collections at the Lawrence Library is the Shattuck Bird Room: a showcase of over ​​100 unique bird specimens that Sidney M. Shattuck (1876-1917) collected, preserved, and mounted. All species were reportedly found within a 5-mile radius of Shattuck’s Pepperell, MA home before the collector was 20 years old. The collection was donated to the library by an unknown group of townspeople."

Amazing. All done before Shattuck was 20 years old. Reminiscent of the young Teddy Roosevelt.