Florida flamingo.

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Florida flamingo.

Entry/Object ID

Library.614

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

10, [2] leaves ; 28 cm Sponsored by Florida State Dept. of Public Instruction. Cover title Bibliography: leaf [11] Compiled by workers of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of FLorida. Federal Works Agency, John M. Carmody, Administrator. Work Project Administration, F.C. Harrington, Commissioner; Florence Keer, Assistant Commissioner; Roy Schroder, State Administrator. Summary: Examines flamingos, their physical characteristics, natural habitat, and behavior. Selected facts: Wild flamingos are a thing of the past; Phoenicopterus ruber is the scientific name of the American flamingo; The flamingo has 2 things in common with the duck (webbed feet and small transverse plates edging the upper and lower jaw); Dr. Frank Chapman gave a vivid description of them in his "Camps and cruises of an ornithologist"; flamingos have been used for food by the Romans, for instance, who felt the tongue was a delicacy; Once found throughout the Bahamas, they were captured in such numbers that they are now found mainly in the saltwater ponds and marshes of inland Inagua and Abaco; The native home of the American flamingo is the tropical coasts and islands from the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, and Yucatan to Brazil and the Galapagos Islands; In 1832, Audubon found many at Indian Key and as far north as Pensacola; In 1931, G.F. Sirman, curator of the Opa Locka Zoological Garden, saw a wild flock on the Keys near Card Sound; G.W. Romer, a Miami photographer, saw some in the Everglades sw of Miami, a month later; The largest collection of captived flamingos is at Hialeah Park.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Flamingos., Birds -- Florida.

Publication Details

Author

Writers' Program (Fla.), Florida. Dept. of Public Instruction. Carmody, John M. (John Michael) 1881-1962. United States Federal Works Agency. United States Work Projects Administration (Fla.).

Edition

Typescript

Publisher

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Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

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Call No.

Rare Book QL 696 .P45 W8