Dear tweetsters,

For the upcoming publication "Birds of Washington" I am looking for
information on Pied-billed Grebe nesting records in the Sate of Washington.

I'm trying to find the information that has not been reported elsewhere;
i.e. you went hiking and saw an adult with chicks on a pond, but you didn't
report it because you figured someone already covered this area. If you have
the recently published "Breeding birds of Washington State" by Smith et al.,
take a look on page 27 and you will see what I mean when I say the species
is under-reported (large sections of core habitat show no records).

Pied-bills nests all over Puget Sound Lowland, however (north) Olympic
Peninsula as well as higher elevations in the Cascades and eastern
Washington records are scarcer.

This is your opportunity to make a contribution to our knowledge on this
oft-overlooked species. Everybody knows them but very few people report
them.

Please send me a message with the following information:

Date: for now just this current/past breeding season;
Location: if possible DeLorme Atlas coordinates but at least nearest city
and County, including elevation when applicable (do they breed above 1400 m
in this state?);
Evidence: pair, nest, eggs, young (egg dates and clutch size if you have
them);
Your name and e-mail address.

If you have long-term records of a particular location where breeding status
of this species has changed, I would be very interested in that as well.

If you know of someone who may have information but who is not on tweeters,
would you please forward this message?

Thank you in advance,
(bracing myself for the avalanche...)

P.S.
Don't bother with Green Lake, Seattle, I have that pretty well covered ;)

Martin Muller, Seattle
MartinMuller at email.msn.com