University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

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Volume 8, No. 5, pp. 307-359, 1 figure in text

  March 10, 1956  

 

 

 

Check-list of the Birds of Kansas

 

 

BY

 

HARRISON B. TORDOFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Kansas
Lawrence
1956

 

 

  March 10, 1956  

CHECK-LIST OF THE BIRDS OF KANSAS

By

Harrison B. Tordoff

Kansas was one of the first states for which a detailed book on birds was published (N. S. Goss, "History of the Birds of Kansas," Topeka, Kansas, 1891). Ornithological progress in Kansas in recent years, however, has not kept pace with work in many other states. As a result, knowledge of the birds of Kansas today is not sufficiently detailed to make possible a modern, definitive report. One purpose of this check-list is to show gaps in our information on birds of the state. Each student of birds can contribute importantly by keeping accurate records of nesting, distribution, and migration of any species in Kansas and by making these records available