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The Birdman of Koshkonong
Dwight Foster Public Library - FCCU Community RoomMartha Bergland, author of "The Birdman of Koshkonong" will share the story of this early Wisconsin naturalist. Thure Kumlien was one of Wisconsin’s earliest Swedish settlers and an accomplished ornithologist, botanist, and naturalist in the mid-1800s. He settled on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in 1843 and soon began sending bird specimens to museums and […]