LABIRD-L for Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Cheap field guides - Sibley and others   JINGOLD    1:54pm   Johnsons Bayou CBC update + Crowley CBC (fwd)   Van Remsen    4:00pm   Re: LOS Winter Meeting Banquet   Louis Debetaz    5:51pm   Bachman's Sparrow   w0214487    11:03pm

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Subject: Cheap field guides - Sibley and others
From: JINGOLD <JINGOLD(AT)PILOT.LSUS.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 2001 1:54pm

E. R. Hamilton Booksellers has the following birds guides at greatly reduced
prices:

Kaufman $13.95 (paper)

Sibley $22.95 (paper)

http://www.hamiltonbook.com/

Click on Birds/Birding (found in listing on left side of page)

Click on Bird Identification Guides

The best thing about Hamilton Bookseller is that shipping and handling is
only $3.00 whether you buy 1 or 100 books.  They do not take credit cards
and you can not pay over then internet.  You have to printout an order form
and send in a check.

Not all books they have are on their web page.  I get a newspaper from them
about once a month.  The one that came today had the Curson book on Warblers
for $7.95.

Get on their mailing list for all kinds of books on all kinds of subjects.

Jim Ingold
LSU-Shreveport
jingold(AT)pilot.lsus.edu


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Subject: Johnsons Bayou CBC update + Crowley CBC (fwd)
From: Van Remsen <najames(AT)unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 2001 4:00pm

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:55:53 -0600
From: "Steven W. Cardiff" <scardif(AT)unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
To: "J. V. Remsen" <najames(AT)unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
Subject: Johnsons Bayou CBC update + Crowley CBC

Van-
        Please post to labird.

        Just to follow-up on an earlier post, the semi-official final
species tally for the Johnsons Bayou CBC (Dec. 17th) was 158.

        The 13th Crowley CBC was held on 5 January 2001.  Things started
out a bit cold and foggy, but it quickly turned into a beautiful day for a
CBC.  Highlights included Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Bald Eagle,
Red-headed Woodpecker (amazingly, the first Crowley CBC record!),
Ovenbird, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows (another first), Harris' Sparrow,
Painted Bunting, and Indigo Bunting.  Also noteworthy were Am. White
Pelican, Am. Avocet, Bonaparte's Gull, 100 (!) White-winged Doves,
Vermilion Flycatcher, several Dickcissels, and good numbers of Horned
Larks and Lapland Longspurs.  The surprising misses were Peregrine Falcon,
Herring Gull, Wilson's Warbler, and House Finch.
        Despite the late date in the count period (this was the first-ever
January Crowley CBC) and all the freezing weather that preceded the count, we
still tallied 150 species (final validation pending recounts and review of
details for rarities).  This is the 7th time (and 7 of the last 9 counts) that
Crowley has reached or exceeded the (arbitrarily) magical 150 species mark (and,
 for the 2 times since 1991 that we came up short, the totals were heartbreakers
 of 148 and 149).  Way to go, and many thanks to a great group of participants!

Steven W. Cardiff, co-compiler

Collections Manager
Sections of Ornithology and Mammalogy
Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA  70803-3216
Email: scardif(AT)unix1.sncc.lsu.edu
225-578-9289 (W)
225-642-5763 (H)
225-578-3075 (FAX)

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Subject: Re: LOS Winter Meeting Banquet
From: Louis Debetaz <ldebetaz(AT)INU.NET>
Date: 16 Jan 2001 5:51pm

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Judith

Louis and Linda Debetaz along with Sherry and Mike Musumeche plan to
attend the banquet. We plan to register for the meeting Friday evening.

Thanks

Louis and Linda Debetaz

Judith O'Neale wrote:

> Last call for the LOS Winter Meeting Banquet.  I have to call in the
> number
> to Best Western on Tuesday evening, so please let me know if you plan
> to
> attend the banquet.  Thanks,  Judith
>
> Judith L. O'Neale
> Lafayette LA
> LOS Secretary/Treasurer
>
> Check out our website at www.losbird.org
> and the LOS Online store for birding needs
>
> "How to be green?  Here's the answer.  Consume less.  Share more.
> Enjoy
> life."
> Penny Kemp and Derek Wall, British ecologists

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Subject: Bachman's Sparrow
From: w0214487 <lduda(AT)SELU.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 2001 11:03pm

LABirders-

I am a graduate student at Southeastern Louisiana University and will be doing
some surveying of Bachman's Sparrow.  I was hoping some of you may have
encountered this bird during breeding season (but winter info welcome too).  I
would appreciate any details of sightings, nests, habitat type and, most
importantly, locations.  You can reply to me directly at:  lduda(AT)selu.edu

Thanks for your help!

Lynn

Lynn Duda
Department of Biological Sciences
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA