Althea R. Sherman - Birds of an Iowa Dooryard (Bur Oak Book)
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Foreword to the 1996 Edition by Marcia Myers Bonta
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1952 by Arthur J. Palas This edition copyright (c) 1996 by the University of Iowa Press International Standard Book Number 0-87745-568-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 96-60645 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach.
BirdsofanIowaDooryard is published with the gracious permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
"Althea Rosina Sherman: Ornithologist of an Iowa Dooryard," from WomenintheField:America'sPioneering WomenNaturalists by Marcia Myers Bonta, is reprinted courtesy of Texas A&M University Press.
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Dedicated by Fred F. Pierce and Arthur J. Palas to the cause of scientific bird study for which Althea R. Sherman worked so assiduously
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Contents
The Johnson County Songbird Project
Barbara Boyle
ix
Althea Rosina Sherman: Ornithologist of an Iowa Dooryard
Marcia Myers Bonta
1
Editor's Note
Fred J. Pierce
11
Foreword to the 1952 Edition
Arthur J. Palas
13
I. Watching the Birds of Our Dooryard
23
II. Feeding Winter Birds
32
III. The Home Life of the Chimney Swift
40
IV. Birds Near at Hand
62
V. The Phoebe
89
VI. The Nest Life of the Western House Wren
100
VII. The Cuckoos
115
VIII. Habits of the Short-billed Marsh Wren
121
IX. Notes on the Rails
133
X. Eleven Days in the Life of a Catbird
139
XI. The Strange Flycatcher
149
XII. The Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk
152
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XIII. Nest Life of the Screech Owl
167
XIV. Down with the House Wren Boxes
184
XV. The Old Ornithology and the New
196
XVI. Experiments in Feeding Hummingbirds during Seven Summers
207
XVII. Are Birds Decreasing in Numbers?
223
XVIII. At the Sign of the Northern Flicker
237
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Althea R. Sherman
266
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The Johnson County Songbird Project
Barbara Boyle
From her early childhood Althea Sherman learned all that she could of the natural world. She lamented that her parents' generation had not even more carefully observed and documented the native plants, birds, and wildlife. This would have at least provided a record of what had been lost in the encroachment of white settlement. Sherman was dismayed by people in general and ornithologists in particular who took for granted or ignored the habitat requirements of birds. She recognized more than ninety years ago that loss of habitat was the fundamental cause worldwide of the decline in numbers and species of birds. Sherman would no doubt be heartsick today to see yards shaved just one or two inches high, roadsides mowed edge to fenceline, streams straight and naked, and prairie and forest nearly everywhere supplanted by beans, corn, and cattle. She could not have imagined miles and miles of malls, superhighways, grandiose homes, and housing developments.
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