{"id":4309,"date":"2012-10-29T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2020-02-20T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:39:16","slug":"a-postscript-on-the-bristle-thighed-curlew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/a-postscript-on-the-bristle-thighed-curlew\/","title":{"rendered":"A Postscript on the Bristle-thighed Curlew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/content.ornith.cornell.edu\/UEWebApp\/images\/pub_allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From CLO's website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/another-other-peoples-bird-book\/\">discovery by David Allen and Henry Kyllingstad<\/a> in 1948 of the first nest and eggs of the Bristle-thighed Curlew was a big deal in the world of American ornithology. On the death of Arthur Allen in 1964, the <a href=\"http:\/\/elibrary.unm.edu\/sora\/Auk\/v085n02\/p0192-p0202.pdf\">obituary by Sewall Pettingill<\/a> made conspicuous mention of this, Allen&#8217;s &#8220;most notable postwar expedition,&#8221; and noted that among the honors accruing to the team was the Burr Award from the National Geographic Society.<\/p>\n<p>I was puzzled that nowhere in any of the sources on Kyllingstad or Warren Petersen was that prestigious award mentioned. Did the entire expedition really receive the award, as Pettingill says?<\/p>\n<p>This morning I heard from the National Geographic Society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>our records only name Dr. Allen as the award recipient, and our grants database does not list other members of the Alaska expedition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible at this remove to say what&#8217;s fair and what wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery by David Allen and Henry Kyllingstad in 1948 of the first nest and eggs of the Bristle-thighed Curlew was a big deal in the world of American ornithology. On the death of Arthur Allen in 1964, the obituary by Sewall Pettingill made conspicuous mention of this, Allen&#8217;s &#8220;most notable postwar expedition,&#8221; and noted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/a-postscript-on-the-bristle-thighed-curlew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Postscript on the Bristle-thighed Curlew&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}