LEADER 04144nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910778110203321 005 20230721031814.0 010 $a0-292-79489-4 024 7 $a10.7560/714519 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479645 035 $a(OCoLC)646761287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245835 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000215192 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208055 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215192 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167503 035 $a(PQKB)11599643 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443338 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443338 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245835 035 $a(DE-B1597)588530 035 $a(OCoLC)1286806735 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794894 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479645 100 $a20061204d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOology and Ralph's talking eggs$b[electronic resource] $ebird conservation comes out of its shell /$fCarrol L. Henderson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 225 1 $aMildred Wyatt-Wold series in ornithology 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71451-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-165) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. The House of the Talking Eggs -- $t2. The Heyday of Oology: 1880?1918 -- $t3. In the Beginning -- $t4. Early Exits from the Land: These Birds Were among the First to Go -- $t5. Wild Bird Eggs -- $t6. The Handsaker Egg Collection: Ralph?s Talking Eggs -- $t7. One Hundred Years Later -- $t8. Scientific Value of Eggs and Egg Collections -- $tEpilogue -- $tSpecies Identification for Eggs in Photos -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBefore modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation "oology" and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs: the bird's name, the species reference number, the quantity of eggs in the clutch, the date and location where the eggs were collected, and the collector's name. These documented egg collections, which typically date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, now provide an important baseline from which to measure changes in the numbers, distribution, and nesting patterns of many species of birds. In Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs, Carrol L. Henderson uses the vast egg collection of Ralph Handsaker, an Iowa farmer, as the starting point for a fascinating account of oology and its role in the origins of modern birdwatching, scientific ornithology, and bird conservation in North America. Henderson describes Handsaker's and other oologists' collecting activities, which included not only gathering bird eggs in the wild but also trading and purchasing eggs from collectors around the world. Henderson then spotlights sixty of the nearly five hundred bird species represented in the Handsaker collection, using them to tell the story of how birds such as the Snowy Egret, Greater Prairie Chicken, Atlantic Puffin, and Wood Duck have fared over the past hundred years or so since their eggs were gathered. Photos of the eggs and historical drawings and photos of the birds illustrate each species account. Henderson also links these bird histories to major milestones in bird conservation and bird protection laws in North America from 1875 to the present. 410 0$aMildred Wyatt-Wold series in ornithology. 606 $aBirds$xEggs$xCollectors and collecting 606 $aBirds$xEggs$vCatalogs and collections 615 0$aBirds$xEggs$xCollectors and collecting. 615 0$aBirds$xEggs 676 $a598 700 $aHenderson$b Carrol L$01548920 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778110203321 996 $aOology and Ralph's talking eggs$93806343 997 $aUNINA