Subject: [Tweeters] leucistic birds
Date: Oct 1 17:27:04 2004
From: Tallman, Dan - tallmand at northern.edu


Friends, this is a completely AWESOME site! You can search all but the most recent ornithological literature. For example, I caught an immature Black-capped Chickadee in South Dakota that was chestnut where a chickadee should be black. The bird molted into a normal adult plumage. I had a copy of an article that I wrote in a couple of seconds! http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v099n04/p0721-p0722.pdf

Dan

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From: ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of Ornithology [mailto:ORNITH-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Bonnie Bowen
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Subject: SORA - Free Online Ornithological Journals

Announcing SORA- The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
The SORA project (http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora) is an open access electronic journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University of New Mexico libraries and IT department. This archive provides access to an extensive Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. The content of this site includes the following titles: The Auk (1884-1999), The Condor (1899-2000), The Journal of Field Ornithology (1930-1999), The Wilson Bulletin (1889-1999), Pacific Coast Avifauna (1900-1974) and Studies in Avian Biology (1978-1999). The North American Bird Bander will also be available in the near future.
The content is available in searchable and browseable formats and documents can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files. Djvu files rely on an "acrobat" type browser plug-in (www.lizardtech.com) for viewing and are approximately 1/4 the size of pdf files for faster downloads. Web browsers must have the ability to read java script (make sure it is turned on). The site is still under development and additional features and journals (JFO browse feature and NABB for example) will be added as the materials become available and the programming is completed. This site is still undergoing some modification and problems (broken/bad links, etc.) can be reported to the SORA Coordinator, Blair Wolf, through the site link. He will not be providing browser support, but is interested in functional issues/ideas relating to the site. We will be providing more detailed information on site operability on the webpage in the coming weeks.
The SORA project is an outgrowth of the Cooper Ornithological Society's efforts to produce an electronic archive of The Condor. The interest and participation of the other North American Ornithological societies has allowed for the creation of SORA. The project was financed solely by the individual societies, and the University of New Mexico Centennial Science Library and IT department invested the time and resources to develop the databases and website. Princeton Imaging scanned the journals, produced the supporting SGML and has provided extensive support towards getting the content online. Dana Gardner kindly painted the attractive banner and Sora for the web page. Enjoy!!!
Best regards, Blair Wolf, SORA Coordinator.


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Sent: Fri 01-Oct-04 7:12 PM
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Subject: [Tweeters] leucistic birds


I have a couple of leucistic Black Capped Chickadees here at my feeder in Puyallup. The whitest one has a black mask around his black eyes , white back and most of the flight feathers. Feet are black.

Leucistic: Unusually pale individuals, resulting from the absence of pigments. The extent of leucism can be either partial or complete. Most "albinos" are usually leucistic birds that retain some pigmentation at least in their soft parts"



Clarice Clark
Puyallup, WA. 98371
mailto:jbroadus at seanet.com