Dear Texbirders and TOS members, The winter reporting season for North American Birds (NAB) has come to an end. This is a plea/request for observers to submit their interesting Texas sightings to us in preparation for the Texas portion of the report. North American Birds 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 North American Birds can be found at: http://www.aba.org/nab/ The winter season extends from 1 December to 28 February and we would like to receive your reports of interesting bird sightings for this period by no later than 15 March. 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 easy to miss a Texbirds post or eBird submission, we do NOT 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. 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: 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: terrverts@xxxxxxxxx Upper Texas Coast: John Tharp 1617 Fountain View Drive Apt 55, Houston, TX 77057. email: jlt290@xxxxxxxxx North-central Texas: D. D. Currie 2703 Colleen Dr., Arlington, TX 76016. email: ddbirder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 would not have been gleaned if not for your efforts. Mark Mark Lockwood 402 E. Harriet Ave. Alpine, Texas 79830 mark.lockwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner