I'm doing some work with records of whooping cranes in Ohio. I'm trying
to track down something published in the Auk in 1902 about this species
in an article about rare birds in southern Ohio: "One was kept in
captivity in Waverly [Pike County] for a number of years. It had been
winged."
        Whoopers were sometimes kept as pets during the nineteenth century. One
from Iowa spent eighteen years here in Columbus with the chickens in a
doctor's back yard. Audubon himself kept a pet whooping crane. I'm
trying to find out if the Waverly bird had been shot here in Ohio.
        Does anyone know an antiquarian in Pike County who might recall or be
able to find out more about this bird? It would have been quite a
curiosity in a small town over a century ago, and might have been
mentioned in newspapers, memoirs, etc. The informant needn't be
interested in birds, just old records of newsworthy events in Waverly.

Grateful for any leads,
Bill Whan
Columbus

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