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BIRD SPECIMENS AT THE PGMNH

Just two of the 13 cases in the PGMNH's Monterey County bird exhibit in 2006.

Bird specimens at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (PGMNH) prepared by Rollo Beck:
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Greater White-fronted Goose
Ross's Goose
Canada Goose
Brant
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pacific Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pink-footed Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Buller's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
White-faced Ibis
Osprey
Rough-legged Hawk
Common Moorhen
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Mountain Plover
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Wandering Tattler
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Surfbird
Red Knot
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Red Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous Gull
Sabine's Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Ancient Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet

Rhinoceros Auklet
Band-tailed Pigeon
Belted Kingfisher
Hairy Woodpecker
Horned Lark
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Western Bluebird
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
A checklist of the birds in the PGMNH prepared by Beck is available in PDF format here. This is a two-sided trifold.

BIRD SPECIMENS AT THE PGMNH

Exhibit Home | The Early California Years (1870-1896)
Collecting for Lord Rothschild (1897-1898) | Monterey Bay Collecting (1903-1910)
Academy Galapagos Expedition (1905-1906) | Collecting for Bent in Alaska (1911-1912)

Brewster-Sanford Expedition (1912-1917) | Whitney South Seas Expedition (1920-1929)
Back Home in Planada (1930-1950) | Bird Specimens at the PGMNH
Artifacts | Map of Beck's World Travels | Exhibit Credits | Links


Page created April 28, 2006. Last updated May 9, 2006.
Page copyright 2006 by the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.