IOWA BIRD LIFE— XI, 1941 
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wildest escapade was my trip to Lansing, Iowa, where I photographed 
nesting Duck Hawks while suspended on a rope on the face of a cliff 
just 400 feet over the Mississippi River, That was a dizzy job and 
one I never will forget but I got my pictures anyway and that is what 
I went after. I banded those four young Duck Hawks and think they 
are the first and only Duck Hawks ever banded in Iowa.” 
Those who have heard Walter Rosene in one of his lectures— and 
there are many thousands — will remember him as an excellent speaker 
with good voice and a high degree of personal magnetism. His sense 
of humor was most refreshing in its originality. His subject matter 
usually concerned the birds of his home state and his fine explanation 
of them raised his public educational work to the highest class. His 
photography, too, was superb and he stood as one of the very best 
wildlife photographers in the Middle West. 
And so, when the little town of Ogden, Iowa, stopped on September 
16, 1941, to pay tribute and to lay Walter M. Rosene to rest in its 
cemetery, his life-long friends said he had been “a citizen of unim- 
peachable integrity, of exemplary industry, and of unquestioned patriot- 
ism”. They knew he was not only theirs but was claimed also by the 
State of Iowa. They knew he was one of the Midwest's best ornith- 
ologists, They knew he had contributed much to the public education 
of his state and had achieved vast results in conserving that wildlife 
of Iowa which every one of them enjoyed. And they paid fitting tribute 1 
1922. 
1925. 
1926. 
Bibliography or Walter M. Rosene 
A Night Flight in Iowa. Bird-Lore, 24 (5) : 275. 
The Arkansas Kingbird in Central Iowa, Wilson Bulk, 37 (3) : 
172. 
Notes on the Shore Birds of Central Iowa. Wilson Bull., 37 
(4) : 206-208. 
Bob-white a True and Faithful Father, Wilson Bulk, 38 (1): 
38-39. 
1927. Warbler Records for 1925 from Central Iowa. Wilson Bull., 39 
( 1 ) : 43. 
1928. An Unusual Flight of Geese. Wilson Bulk, 40 {3) : 199 (with 
W'alter W. Bennett). 
1929. (No title) A note on geese at Ogden, Iowa. Bulk Ta. Ornith. 
Union, (4) : 24, 
1930. (No title) A note on relation of snakes to nesting birds. Bulk 
la. Ornith. Union, (5): 27-28. 
1931. A Timely Warning. Iowa Bird Life, 1 (1) : 13. 
1932. A Bit of History. Iowa Bird Life, 2 (1): 3-5, 
1934. My Neighbor of the Meadow. Iowa Bird Life, 4 (2) : 15-16. 
1935. Mourning Dove Reports. Iowa Bird Life, 5 (3): 41. 
1936. Midsummer Records of the Short-billed Marsh Wren, Iowa Bird 
Life, 6 (1) : 6, 
A Battle of the ‘Speed Demons' of the Air. Iowa Bird Life 6 
<3>: 42. 
(Bird Notes in the Mimeographed Letters of the Iowa Ornith- 
ologists’ Union, 1926-1928). Iowa Bird Life, 6 (4): 48-53. In 
this series there are notes bv Rosene in Letters Nos. 15, 17, 18 
and 22. 
Matching Wits with the Birds. Leisure Mag., 3 (3): 13-16. 
The Red-shafted Flicker in Boone County, Iowa. Wilson Bulk, 
48 (3) : 219-220. 
1937. The Last Chicken Hunt. Nature Mag., 30 (6) : 342-343. 
1940. The Dubuque Convention. Iowa Bird Life, 10 (2) : 22-25, 
Two Good Lists at Ogden. Iowa Bird Life, 10 (2): 30. 
1941. Filming the Elusive Bell’s Vireo. Iowa Bird Life, 11 (1): 2-5. 
A Report on the Annua! Convention. Iowa Bird Life 11 (2) ■ 
32-35. 
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