>Dennis wondered: Is ornithology practiced in Washington?
>
>The same impression results from reading area reports in the Pacific
>Seabird Group publication. Is it a result of the inaccessibilty of half of
>our outer coast line, as reflected in Marbled Murrelet research in
>particular? If nothing else, we don't see too many Tweets posting from
>Forks or Aberdeen.
>
>Herb Curl

Ah yes, but it's not Tweets (as a group, anyway) who carry out Marbled
Murrelet research, it's state and federal agency biologists and their
volunteers. I know there's been and is being lots of MAMU research in the
state; why isn't it getting into symposia and into publication?

In defense of the state and its biologists, there *is* information about WA
published in the 1992 publication "Status and Conservation of the Marbled
Murrelet in North America," H. R. Carter & M. L. Morrison, eds. Proc.
Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 5, Oct. 1992. Papers by
biologists from both WDFW and UW.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416