And if you join the Sno-Isle library system (don't have to live there to do so), Birds of the World is available for free-;though without the many other benefits offered by WOS.
Good birding to all,
Trileigh
Trileigh Tucker, PhD
Professor Emerita, Environmental Studies, Seattle University
Pelly Valley, West Seattle
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From: Steve Hampton <
stevechampton at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 11:56 AM
To:
tweeters at u.washington.edu <
tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] The Next Level Info?
Birds of the World comes complimentary if you join Washington Ornithological Society, which is only $25/yr ($15 for students).
https://wos.org/membership/
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:25 AM Wim van Dam <
wim.van.dam at gmail.com<mailto:
wim.van.dam at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Jim
I wholeheartedly recommend getting a subscription to "Birds of the World" ($49/year):
https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/subscribe
To your case: for Northern Flicker it has a very detailed article on "Plumages, Molts, and Structure".
Wim van Dam
Solvang, CA
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:01 AM <
jimbetz at jimbetz.com<mailto:
jimbetz at jimbetz.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I -often- have questions that are not being answered by my useual sources
(eBird, Cornell, Audubon, field guides, etc.). As just one example how do I
answer the question - at what age/in what season do Flickers change from
juvenile patterns to adult?
When I go to any of the above usually they only have the highest level
of info (a few pictures, range maps, and recent/historical sightings).
I guess I'm finding my way into the areas of ornithological info ... ?
I have posted questions to this group - maybe once or twice a quarter -
that are along these lines and haven't gotten what I consider "the
answers I was looking for" ... don't get me wrong, I value this
community highly - just for different purposes.
Since we live in Skagit County most of my "deeper questions" are about
the birds that show up here ... in all seasons.
- Jim
P.S. I had a first ever sighting event this morning. Early on, before
they flew off to where ever they went to today, there was a group of
swans (probably all Trumpeters) that had obviously spent the night on a
bend of the Skagit River! We look down on that large S-curve in the
Skagit that is East of the Gardner Road Launch Ramp and there they were
in a 'line' on the slow side of the sand bar. Water does flow thru
that area but it is not the primary path for the flow - that's on the
other side of the same bar (just East of where I saw them). I'm seeing
about 4 or 5 birds "just lifting off and moving" from that location
right now. Sorry, too far away for a picture.
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