Great Auk

Page 403 A History

Excerpt from A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States by Edward Howe Forbush

1 records

MARC numberDecisionSpecies#LocationArrivalDepartureObserversNotesReport
1602-001AGreat AukMultiplChappaquiddick, Dukes Co.5/20/16025/20/1602Samuel Purchas*, Bartholomew Gosnold*25

 

Read more about the Great Auk in A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States by Edward Howe Forbush, the state ornithologist from 1908 to 1929.