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Parker GH at Audubon Community Nature Center Jamestown, NY |
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11-27-2023, 04:27 PM
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Parker GH at Audubon Community Nature Center Jamestown, NY
As I was scrolling through Facebook this evening, a shotgun caught my eye…
My local Audubon Center posted:
ACNC recently renovated the Simpson Bird Room, a historic collection of birds that dates back 100 years or more. Join Katie Finch, Senior Nature Educator, for this Friday's First Lunch Bunch to learn more about Ralph Simpson and the bird collection housed at Audubon. Register online at https://auduboncnc.doubleknot.com/ev...-adult/3015124
Ralph Simpson was a Warren, Pennsylvania native who studied and collected birds, contributed to the field of ornithology. Learn more about him and his collection, some of which is housed at Audubon.
Audubon Community Nature Center houses a collection of over 150 birds created during a time when bird collections, rather than field guides, were an important resource to learn more about birds. This First Friday presentation by Senior Nature Educator, Katie Finch, will explore the story of the Simpson collection, as well as the Warren local who collected and mounted the birds.
Ralph B. Simpson was a passionate and skilled naturalist. He explored the wild places in Warren County, Pennsylvania and Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania. With a license from Warren County, he collected birds, nests, and eggs, preserving them himself. He also contributed to the larger scientific community in the late 1800s through his writing, record keeping and photography.
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12-05-2023, 08:26 AM
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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.
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