Texbirders,
Did you see anything really interesting this spring? Want us to
mention it in North American Birds?
The spring reporting season for North American Birds (NAB) started on
March 1st and ended yesterday on May 31st. This is a plea/request for
observers to submit their interesting Texas sightings to us in
preparation for the Texas portion of the report.
NAB is published four times a year by the American Birding Association
and contains seasonal sightings/summaries for just about all regions
of North America, including Canada, the US, Mexico as well as central
America and some of the Caribbean islands. More information about
NAB can be found at:
http://www.aba.org/nab/
The winter season extends from 1 March to 31 May and we would like to
receive your reports of interesting bird sightings for this period by
no later than June 15th. Please send your sightings DIRECTLY TO The
SUB-REGIONAL EDITOR listed below. Some of you might assume that a
Texbirds post, or even an eBird submission, will be picked up by your
NAB sub-regional editor, and will serve as your contribution. This is
not necessarily the case. Not only is it quite easy to miss a Texbirds
post or eBird submission, we do NOT always assume that sightings
posted to those mediums are necessarily intended by the observer as
something that can or should be published in North American Birds.
Therefore, please report directly to the editor for the area of your
sighting, even if it is just as a carbon-copy (cc or bcc) of a
Texbirds report. Help us separate the wheat from the chaff by sending
a note to the proper editor below.
Thanks to Bert Frenz, there is a listing of the Texas counties
included for each of the reporting sub-regions at:
http://www.bafrenz.com/birds/NAB.htm
The names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of each of Texas' North
American Birds sub-regional editors follows. We encourage you to send
your seasonal sightings and summaries to the appropriate one:
Trans-Pecos (east of Hudspeth County): Eric Carpenter 4710
Canyonwood Drive, Austin, TX 78735.
email: ecarpe@xxxxxxxxx
El Paso and Hudspeth Counties: Jim Paton, 4325 Boy Scout Lane, El Paso, TX 79922
Email: jnpaton@xxxxxxx
South Texas: Willie Sekula 7063 Co. Rd. 228, Falls City, TX 78113-2627.
email: wsekula@xxxxxxxxxx
East Texas: Bert Frenz 221 Rainbow Dr., #12190, Livingston, TX 77399-2021.
email: bert2@xxxxxxxxxxx
Central Texas: Eric Carpenter 4710 Canyonwood Drive, Austin, TX 78735.
email: ecarpe@xxxxxxxxx
Northwest Texas (Panhandle, South Plains): Anthony Hewetson 4407 36th
St., Lubbock TX 79414.
email: fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx
Upper Texas Coast: Ron Weeks 110 Indian Warrior, Lake Jackson, TX 77566
email: ronweeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
North-central Texas: Ross Rasmussen 1325 S. Goliad St. Apt. 1302,
Rockwall, TX 75087-4669.
email: ross.rasmussen@xxxxxxx
We are encouraging everyone to join us in the process of sharing your
experiences and sightings from your area. You may contribute something
of lasting value; information which we may have missed without your
help.
--Eric
Eric Carpenter
Austin, TX
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