Thursday, June 12, 2014

Today is....

The 150th birthday of Frank Chapman, famed ornithologist who started the Christmas Bird Count. The hall of birds in the American Museum of Natural history is named after him , the first curator of that wing.

Hat tip to Mr Chapman

for more on Mr Chapman, thanks to Rick Wright on this history note, read Ricks blog post

http://birdaz.com/blog/2014/06/12/looking-for-chapman/