The Tanager Expedition was a series of five biological surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands conducted in partnership between the Bureau of Biological...
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Nihoa (section Tanager expedition)
wildlife refuge established by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. The Tanager Expedition surveyed the island in 1923, taking a comprehensive biological inventory...
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is a causeway that crosses Wilkes Channel to the main island. The Tanager Expedition set up a tent camp on Wilkes in the 1923, when they surveyed Wake...
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Wake Island (section U.S. expeditions)
expanding the expedition to Johnston, Midway and Wake, all islands not administered by the Department of Agriculture. On July 27, 1923, USS Tanager, a World...
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of Johnston and Wake Islands (1931), based on collections from the Tanager Expedition (1923). Three species were described: Lepturus repens, Boerhavia diffusa...
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Chapman Grant (category Tanager Expedition)
Trans. San Diego Nat. Hist. Soc. 12 (27): 441–448. Biography portal Tanager Expedition "Chapman Grant Dead at 95; Grandson of Ulysses S. Grant". New York...
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Wake Island rail (category Tanager Expedition)
In: Olson, Storrs L., History and Ornithological Journals of the Tanager Expedition of 1923 to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Johnston and Wake Islands...
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Passerini's tanager Summer tanager Scarlet tanager Spotted tanager Western tanager etc. - about 900 articles - see Category:Tanagers Aircraft Curtiss Tanager Expeditions...
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Laysan honeycreeper (category Tanager Expedition)
island and proceeded to destroy its vegetation. By the visit of the Tanager Expedition in 1923, Laysan had become barren and desert-like, and only three...
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Laysan millerbird (category Tanager Expedition)
discounted, but it seems highly improbable. At any rate, the 1923 expedition by the USS Tanager (AM-5) reported only one unconfirmed sighting which seems to...
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Laysan (section Discovery and early expeditions)
eradicated, and the Laysan millerbird had gone extinct. In 1923, the Tanager Expedition arrived, and the rabbits were exterminated at long last. The bird...
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Laysan rail (category Tanager Expedition)
Olson, Storrs L. (1996). "History and ornithological journals of the Tanager expedition of 1923 to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Johnston and Wake Islands"...
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Atoll, which was found by N.C. Middlebrooks in 1859. In 1925, the Tanager Expedition travelled to many of the NWHI. The islands were mapped, new species...
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Nihoa millerbird (category Tanager Expedition)
[1] The trinomial commemorates Samuel Wilder King, captain of the Tanager Expedition and later Governor of Hawaii. 24 Nihoa millerbirds were translocated...
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Samuel Wilder King (category Tanager Expedition)
Samuel Wilder King (December 17, 1886 – March 24, 1959) was the eleventh Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1953 to 1957. He was appointed...
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wrecked on the French Frigate Shoals. The crew of 12 survived. The Tanager Expedition visited the French Frigate Shoals in 1923 and did a survey of the...
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Alexander Wetmore (category Tanager Expedition)
From April 1923 to July 1924, Wetmore was the lead scientist of the Tanager Expedition, a series of five biological surveys to study the flora, fauna and...
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October 6, 1919, and found stone artifacts during his visit. The Tanager Expedition visited Necker Island in 1923 and 1924, and is noted for exploring...
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Schiedea verticillata (category Tanager Expedition)
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition. It has been listed as endangered since 1996. It has stems 40–60 cm...
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prevent ships from passing. Tanager was named by the U.S. Navy after the tanager, one of numerous American passerine birds. Tanager (Minesweeper No. 5) was...
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Amaranthus brownii (category Tanager Expedition)
now considered extinct. A. brownii was first discovered during the Tanager Expedition in 1923 by botanist Edward Leonard Caum. It differed from other Hawaiian...
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sometimes called "Turtle Island." The island was surveyed by the Tanager Expedition of 1923 and 1924. At that time it was about 11 acres of land. In 1932...
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Kenneth Emory (category Tanager Expedition)
1988, p. 79. Krauss 1988, p. 137. Krauss 1988, p. 311. Tanager Expedition Kaimiloa Expedition Kirch, Patrick V (1992). "In Memoriam: KENNETH PIKE EMORY...
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USS Whippoorwill (AM-35) (category Tanager Expedition)
sister-ship Tanager (AM-5) accomplished the first survey of Johnston Island in modern times. During that cruise, she carried members of the Tanager Expedition, a...
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scientific expeditions in the 20th century, including the fifth Tanager Expedition (1924) to Nihoa and Necker Island and the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to...
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Leeward Islands, Hawaii. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 81; Tanager Expedition Publication No. 7. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press. Evenhuis...
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his first patent (in the United States) for "television systems". Tanager Expedition. February – The Maudsley Hospital, established jointly by the London...
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1984), Russian accordionist Ted Dranga, crew member on the second Tanager Expedition Dranga, an administrative region in the Kingdom of Licchavi This page...
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Japanese fishing huts on Southeast Island. In 1923, the vessels of the Tanager Expedition stopped at the atoll and killed "all but one rabbit on Southeast Island...
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on the reef, however the ship and the crew survived. In 1923, the Tanager expedition visited and made the first scientific determination of the pinnacle's...
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