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The Birdman of Koshkonong The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien

Biography / Memoir
By: Martha Bergland(Author)
304 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations
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  • The Birdman of Koshkonong ISBN: 9780870209529 Paperback Apr 2021 In stock
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Thure Kumlien was one of Wisconsin's earliest Swedish settlers and an accomplished ornithologist, botanist, and naturalist in the mid-1800s, though his name is not well known today. He settled on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in 1843 and soon began sending bird specimens to museums and collectors in Europe and the eastern United States, including the Smithsonian. Later, he prepared natural history exhibits for the newly established University of Wisconsin and became the first curator and third employee of the new Milwaukee Public Museum.

For all of his achievements, Kumlien never gained the widespread notoriety of Wisconsin naturalists John Muir, Increase Lapham, or Aldo Leopold. Kumlien did his work behind the scenes, content to spend his days in the marshes and swamps rather than in the public eye. He once wrote that he was not "cut out for pretensions and show in the world". Yet, his detailed observations of Wisconsin's natural world – including the impact of early agriculture on the environment – were hugely important to the fields of ornithology and botany. As this carefully researched and lovingly rendered biography proves, Thure Kumlien deserves to be remembered as one of Wisconsin's most influential naturalists.

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Martha Bergland is the coauthor, with Paul Hayes, of Studying Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Historical Society Press biography on famed Wisconsin naturalist Increase Lapham, which won the Milwaukee County Historical Society's Gambrinus Prize. She taught for many years at Milwaukee Area Technical College. She lives in Glendale, Wisconsin.

Biography / Memoir
By: Martha Bergland(Author)
304 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations
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