Bird #7

The spotted dove is our “big” dove. According to the Bishop Museum:

Spotted Doves, native to India, China, s.e. Asia, the Philippine Is,and Indonesia,
has been successfully introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, s. California, and the Southeastern Hawaiian Islands (Ali and Ripley 1981, Long 1981, Lever 1987, Higgins and Davies 1996, AOU 1998). Birds of subspecies S. c. chinensis (AOU 1957; PP examination), presumably from China, were brought to Hawaii sometime prior to 1855 (Walker 1967) probably as captives being raised for food by Chinese immigrants. Escapes became established and by 1879-1900 the species was found commonly in the wild throughout most Southeastern Islands (Finsch 1880; Wilson 1890a; Slivers 1892; Henshaw 1900b, 1902a; Rothschild 1900; McGregor 1902, Shauinsland 1906; Caum 1933; Bryan 1937). Despite this, the spotted dove continued to be imported through the 1920s.

We had big but not very photogenic surf today. And clouds. My exciting life included making origami hearts and curating my shoreline “treasures”.

Curation. An interesting word/concept. If you are the curator of a museum – your best friend is your museum’s “Statement of Collections”. Without a tightly written Statement of Collections your museum becomes a dumping ground for everyone’s old “stuff”.

What I need is a Statement of Collections for all my stuff for the rest of my life. I must think about this. Anything that doesn’t fit – well, it would have to go. And, I could use it to keep me from getting more stuff.