George Miksch Sutton (1898–1982)
Auteur de Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains
A propos de l'auteur
George Miksch Sutton was born on May 16, 1898 in Bethany, Nebraska. By the age of twelve he was taking taxidermy lessons at the Northwestern School of Taxidermy. Sutton worked at the Carnegie Museum while attending Bethany College in West Virginia. He became the State Ornithologist of Pennsylvania afficher plus but later left the position to attend Cornell University, where he became its Curator of Birds. After he fought in World War II, Suttton taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Oklahoma. After a few expeditions, Sutton wrote the books Eskimo Year and Birds in the Wilderness. He later wrote the book Icelandic Summer and designed an Icelandic Postage Stamp, for both of which he was awarded the Knight Cross Order of the Falcon by the Icelandic Government. George Miksch Sutton died on December 7, 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de George Miksch Sutton
Mexican Birds, First Impressions: Based upon an Ornithological Expedition to Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, and… (1951) 16 exemplaires
Oklahoma Birds: Their Ecology and Distribution, with Comments on the Avifauna of the Southern Great Plains (1967) 11 exemplaires
Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum: The exploration of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay Vol. XII Part I Section 1, 2, 3 (1932) 2 exemplaires
American Bird Biographies 1 exemplaire
Mexican Birds - First Impressions 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Sutton, George Miksch
- Autres noms
- Sutton, George Miksch, 1898-1982
- Date de naissance
- 1898-05-16
- Date de décès
- 1982-12-07
- Lieu de naissance
- Bethany, Nebraska, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Norman, Oklahoma, USA
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- Œuvres
- 22
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 200
- Popularité
- #110,008
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 23
- Langues
- 1
Those of us at retirement age can remember what our region was like during the 1950s and 1960s but this book by Sutton takes us back an additional generation to the 1910 through 1940 era. We see a different world, we see the early recognition of the inter-dependency of species on other species and on the climate being realized. We see the notion that some species abundances and ranges are changing as our world changes. We see how techniques of study of the natural world were different then from today. Back then the author employed the gun , banding, and egg collection to document species breeding and ranges while today, photography, GPS tracking, and established regular census taking are used much more frequently
Reading about firsthand discovery of the lives of birds and animals, and of spending time in the wilds, are usually fascinating, and Sutton conveys this well.
Sutton describes his activities in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, California, Florida, the Midwest, New England, New Brunswick, Labrador, and the shores of Hudson Bay. For those of us who have been to any of those areas, we can connect further with this book.
Another aspect of the stories is Sutton's personal efforts and growth in techniques of watercolor renditions of what he has seen, both birds, animals plants and scenes incorporating each. There was a lot of effort of skinning specimens, now supplanted mostly with good photography.
Sutton expended a lot of effort in documenting species ranges and lifestyles, such as collecting difficult to reach bird nests. He describes climbing trees over a hundred feet tall and far up cliff edges in order to collect Raven, hawk, Goldeneye, and even eagle nests intact, to bring back to museums for dioramas. He fell off a cliff breaking ribs and cracking vertebrae, got stuck in a hollow log, was attacked by hawks and owls, and sprayed by skunks, all very good armchair reading.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.… (plus d'informations)