Evening Grosbeak

Tuesday Tweet: The Winter Bird-Life of Minnesota

In February of 1916, Thomas Sadler Roberts, associate curator of the Zoological Museum, released the first of what he termed “Occasional Papers,” a series of bulletins issued from the “Zoological Division of the Geological and Natural History Survey.” The content…


“Mounted” Monday

– Evening Grosbeak, in house [A mounted specimen of an Evening Grosbeak.] mount: to prepare (as a specimen) for examination or display (From the glass plate negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History collection)…