Book is out of stock on Amazon, other sellers have it, but it is 2-3x more expensive.
KathyN
Medina, OH
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From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Haans Petruschke
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] Last words on Trautman work
Thanks for the heads up in this Bill. Amazon does indeed have these at a very reasonable price in hardcover.
Anyone interested in the non sporting aspects of avafauna of northern Ohio and the Lake Erie - Allegheny Plateau region which more or less includes the central basin of Lake Erie, would find it very valuable to get copies of both the first edition of Birds of the Cleveland Region, by A.B.
Williams, and the fourth edition, edited by Larry Rosche. The former is a rich source of information about the history and changes in status of the various bird species going back to Kirtland's original Ornithology of Ohio.
The wonder of Amazon makes copies of both editions available at a reasonable price
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to all celebrating
Haans
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm giving up. Somewhere there are many boxes of mint copies of Milton
> and Mary Trautman's last work, edited in 2006 from drafts and notes by
> his friend and colleague Dr. Ronald Stuckey of OSU.
> A review in the Ohio Journal of Science called it "A wonderful
> read, written in looser prose than science now permits, yet with all
> the details and description science demands," and relates how the
> Trautmans "made thorough and careful searches of 130 years of
> ornithological records, turn-of-the-century sporting literature, and
> talked with old market hunters, trappers and local Great Lakes
> commercial fisherman to gather information about all manner of water
> birds observed in the western Lake Erie basin...Often such snippets of
> personal observation, historically based, are our only information
> from the past to indicate how and potentially why a species once
> abundant has changed. That aspect alone would make this a wonderful
> book to spend time perusing. Yet, its historical records and
> documentation add a second level of enjoyment and enlightenment to the
> reader. How many Ohioans know there were flamingos seen here in the wild in the 1960s and 1970s?"
> I sold a box of these 305-page books, "Birds of Western Lake Erie:
> Documented Observations and Notes 1850-1980," for the editor a few
> years back as I went to birding get-togethers. Rob Harlan and I were
> among a group of readers who'd helped with editing, and I've had to
> imagine them gathering dust, but I happened to find a number of them
> for sale on Amazon. I wonder if the now-retired editor, stuck with all
> those boxes in his basement, may have been among those offering
> copies. So I mention for readers this opportunity to acquire copies of
> this valuable work; check it out on Amazon, as they are hard to find and well worth studying.
> 'Nuff said,
> Bill Whan
>
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