WTIP: Sue Leaf and the father of Minnesota ornithology

By Dick Swanson

WTIP: North Shore Community Radio

July 01, 2013

Leaf_Love cover Dick Swanson chatted with Sue Leaf June 28 about her new book, "A Love Affair with Birds," from the U of MN Press. The book is a wonderful portrait not only of Thomas Sadler Roberts, the father of Minnesota ornithology, but of the state and the Twin Cities in their early history.

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