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time, he had the fortune to apprentice as a taxidermist under a man named Ed
Ochsner. Stoddard paid Ochsner $ 25 to learn taxidermy under the condition that Stoddard would not compete with Ochsner locally. Stoddard rotated his residence by spending summers working on the farm and winters working with Ochsner, who also happened to be a field contact for the Milwaukee Public Museum. Stoddard received his first professional break when a hippopotamus owned by the Ringling Brothers Circus died in Maraboo, Wisconsin. The Ringlings were friends and hunting partners of Ochsner. Alfred Ringling contacted Ochsner who, in turn, decided that it should be transported to the Milwaukee Public Museum. Being such a large animal, Stoddard stuck around for a week to assist the head taxidermist for the Milwaukee Public Museum, George Shrosbree, with processing the animal for transport. Shrosbree was suitably impressed with Stoddard's enthusiasm and offered Stoddard a job as assistant taxidermist in March 1910.
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destroying bobwhite quail habitat that was prized by wealthy landowners. Many of these landowners were from more northern regions and products of the industrial revolution. Around the turn of the 20th century, hunting preserve owners began to dramatically reduce the acreage burned each year. By the late teens and early 1920s, a steep decline in bobwhite numbers began to draw the attention of the wealthy-landowners-turned-hunters. In 1924, the
Cooperative Quail Study Investigation was born. Led by Herbert Stoddard, this effort was a jointly-funded effort of the Bureau of Biological Survey several landowners in the region. The purpose was to examine cause of the decline of bobwhite and to find a way to reverse the apparent population trajectory. One of the principal causes for the decline that Stoddard recognized immediately was the decrease in the use of the prescribed fire as a habitat management tool.
193:, and on the north by the Tifton Upland of Georgia. The history of this region provided a unique setting for Stoddard to study. The Red Hills became a refuge for northerners seeking warming climes during the winter months and purported health benefits of breathing the air of the piney woods. Those with the means—and suffering from long winters or diseases such as tuberculosis—found the southern atmosphere charming and therapeutic. In short time, these visitors began to recreate by seeking hunting opportunities, particularly the pursuit of northern bobwhite quail. Not long after their initial arrival, these wealthy visitors began purchasing land in the region, and by 1930, owned over 250,000 acres of land used for hunting.
136:) in northern Florida and southern Georgia. Bobwhite quail populations had recently been in decline and a study was launched to investigate the causes, and what could be done to reverse the trend. This investigation, known as the Cooperative Quail Investigation, was funded by wealthy landowners in the region that began to suspect a downward trend in bobwhite quail numbers. The study culminated in the publication of his most well-known work, The Bobwhite Quail: Its habits, preservation, and increase (1931). After the book was published, Stoddard formed the Cooperative Quail Study Association in order to continue his quail research.
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taxidermy. A few years after he was born, his family moved from
Chicago to Florida at the age of four where Stoddard spent 7 years in the pinewoods prior to the timber industry arriving. During this time he worked at a very young age with cattlemen and observed them setting fire to the woods. Stoddard remarked years later about his experiences at such a young age, "that no schooling or advantages could have been more valuable to me ... in my later years as ornithologist, ecologist, and wildlife researcher."
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rare species migrating through the area that were previously unknown, as well as the factors that affect the rate at which birds incur mortality. These insights have been used to provide guidelines for reducing avian mortality at communication tower sites, as well as to estimate the total impact that towers may have on bird populations across the United States and Canada. Man-made structures remain one the largest causes of mortality for songbirds in the United States.
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of prescribed fire and harvest selection takes into account many factors including sustained yield and aesthetics. The open park-like structure that results from this management largely fits the description of early explorers to the region, including
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thereafter became increasingly involved with the ornithological community. Realizing that museum work would likely keep him indoors for more time than he fancied, Stoddard began thinking about a career shift that focused more on being a field naturalist, with an emphasis on birds, rather than taxidermy. He helped found the Inland Bird
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for 28 years, Stoddard, his assistant Robert A. Norris, and others visited the cleared area below the tower to pick up bird carcasses, primarily songbirds, and record data. Stoddard often did this by scanning the area from the open top of a
Volkswagen Beetle. Stoddard's bird study documented mass kills of birds that collided with the
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and developed what is currently referred to as the
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and the tower itself. In one instance, Stoddard documented the death of over 800 birds on
September 19, 1962. Over the length of the study, over 44,000 individual birds were collected representing 186 species. Many valuable insights were gained from his study including the documentation of several
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Herbert Lee Stoddard was born on February 24, 1889, in Rockford, Illinois, to Helen Eugenia Wallace and Herbert A. Stoddard. While he never finished high school, he had a keen sense for the natural world. Like many early naturalists, Stoddard gained insight into the world through agricultural and
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In conjunction with Stoddard's wildlife management work, forestry played a central role in his conservation of some of the most ecologically preserved longleaf pine savannas remaining. Following his bobwhite quail investigation, Stoddard became a forestry consultant. In 1950, Stoddard hired Leon
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Stoddard worked as a taxidermist for the Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin (1910-1913) and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois (1913-1920) as a taxidermist, field collector, and ornithologist. In 1920, Stoddard returned to work at the Milwaukee Public Museum and shortly
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The mark of wealthy industrialists is still evident in the landowners that occupy this region to this day. Descendants of the Ford family, Western Union Telegraph founders, Vanderbilts, the New York Herald Tribune owner, and others still own, or recently owned, property in the Red Hills. Many
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properties are now under conservation easements, which restrict development and incentivize owners with tax breaks. This new conservation culture in the region is playing an important role in a landscape-level preservation strategy for some of last remnants of the
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Crawford, Robert L.; Engstrom, R. Todd (2001). "Characteristics of Avian Mortality at a North Florida Television Tower: A 29-Year Study (CaracterĂsticas de Mortalidad de Aves en una Torre de TelevisiĂłn al Norte de la Florida: 29 Años de Estudio)".
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