[Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?

[Casey Tucker]

What about the large collection of note cards regarding stomach contents of different bird species at USGS that needed to be transcribed into a digital format?
Casey TuckerAdjunct InstructorBiology/Environmental ScienceCentral Ohio Technical Collegetucker.468 at cotc.edu

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From: ellen.paul at verizon.net
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 18:27:43 -0400
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?


  
    
  
  
    Dear Erica,

    Do you know what kind of observations they are? Nest watches?
      Point counts? Something else?

    There are a couple of projects well underway at the USGS Patuxent
      Wildlife Research Center in Laurel MD to transcribe nest cards and
      migration records. It is possible that they would want to "adopt"
      your researcher's records but even if they don't, he should
      consider using their methodology. They scanned the records, put
      them on the web, and two volunteers transcribe each record. If
      there are mismatches, they can pull that record and check for
      errors. This is particularly important with old, hand-written
      records.

    

    Please feel free to have your researcher contact me.

    Ellen

    

    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Ellen Paul
      
      
      
      
      
        Ellen Paul
        Executive Director
        Ornithological
            Council  

        
        Phone (301) 986 8568

        
        
          Providing Scientific Information about Birds
      
    
    

      

      On 5/19/16 3:43 PM, Erica Krimmel wrote:

    
    
      
      
      
      
        Hi all,
         
        The USDA had a Division of Ornithology and
          Mammalogy in the late 1800s that recorded bird observations at
          different stations (among other things). Has anyone seen any
          of these such records already digitized? We have a researcher
          interested in historic bird observations who is considering
          transcribing our paper copies, but before he does that I
          figured I would make sure he isn’t re-doing work, since what
          we have in our archives are marked as copies of what the
          original observer mailed in to USDA (in 1893…).
         
        Much thanks,
        Erica
         
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