Subject: here's Tyler
Date: Jan 30 12:12:24 2001
From: Hal Opperman - halop at accessone.com


The February issue of Birding, just arrived, profiles the winners of
the ABA/Leica Young Birder of the Year Contest 1999-2000. And there,
with a fine photo, is Tyler Davis of Mercer Island (and Tweeters).
Congratulations Tyler!

Also in this issue is "An Introduction to the NABCI Bird Conservation
Regions" by David Pashley, who will edit a new department in Birding
devoted to profiles of each of these 37 regions. More and more birds
conservationists are accepting this regional construct as a model for
bird conservation efforts in the future. Three of these areas can be
found in the loosely defined Cascadia region served by Tweeters:
Northern Pacific Rainforest, Great Basin, and Northern Rockies (if
you go waaaaay north in British Columbia, add two more --
Northwestern Interior Forest and Boreal Taiga Plains).

This department is a nice addition to the magazine's usual fine
articles on identification (e.g., "Wing covert pattern as an aid to
identifying female and immature Bullock's and Baltimore
Orioles--another look," by Jaramillo, Lee, and Birch) and birding
sites (e.g., article on birding for vagrants in my old home state of
Illinois -- who woulda thunk a Red-cockaded Woodpecker would show up
there?).

Hal Opperman
Medina, Washington
mailto:halop at accessone.com