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Dan Williams new winter field notes editor

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IOS is proud to announce that Dan Williams, a long-time supporter and field trip co-chairman, has agreed to become the Field Notes Editor for the Winter Season, Dec. 1 to Feb. 28, which is published in Meadowlark.  You can send him your notes via email (preferred) or snail mail.  Contact Dan at 6055 Safford Road, Rockford IL 61101 or click here to send him your notes.

IOS is grateful to past winter season field notes editors including Kelly McKay, who served for many years, and Michael Hogg, who served as an interim editor for two years, among others.

Meadowlark has one of the most, if not the most comprehensive and interpretive field notes of many surrounding states. The data are used and will be used by ornithologists, researchers and birders for many years to come. Much of these data can now be found on line on our website.

Please send your notes directly to Dan even if you post to IBET and ebird.

All field notes editors use your notes, IBET, ebird and many other sources to provide you the most comprehensive list of sightings of birds that help us understand the population dynamics of avian life in Illinois.

 

Meadowlark 2013 – Vol. 22, No. 2

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46 The 2012 Illinois and Mississippi River Fall Waterbird and Wetland Habitat Report
– Aaron P. Yetter, Michael M. Horath and Heath M. Hagy

52 First Illinois Record … The Wandering Tattler
– Matthew Ligas

53 Eighteenth Report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee
– Paul Sweet

Photo Gallery
62 & 63 Fall Migration

Departments

56 Field Notes: The 2012 Fall Migration
– David B. Johnson

Meadowlark 2013 – Vol. 22, No. 1

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2 An integrative approach to testing density affects in a migratory songbird, the Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea), in southern Illinois – Nicole Davros, Stephanie Wheeler, Wendy Schelsky, Jeffrey Brawn and Jeffrey Hoover

Photo Gallery
21 & 24 Summer Color
22 & 23 Nesting Behavior

Departments

9 Field Notes: The 2012 breeding season
– Steven D. Bailey

Meadowlark 2012 – Vol. 21, No. 4

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126 Elaeniamania 126
– Aaron Gyllenhaal

128 Illinois’s first winter record of the Black-throated Blue Warbler at sapsucker wells
with notes on other Midwest and Mid -Canada winter records
– David B. Johnson

Photo Gallery
144 & 145 Spring Birds

Departments

131 The 2012 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird Count
– Michael P. Ward and Tara Beveroth

138 Field Notes: The 2012 spring migration
– Geoffrey A. Williamson

Meadowlark 2012 – Vol. 21, No. 3

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74 Illinois’s record irruption of Snowy Owls during the winter of 2011/2012
with notes on historical distribution
– David B. Johnson

84 A sampling of Snowy Owl pellet contents during winter 2011/2012
– Joshua I. Engel

Photo Gallery
85 A Snowy Owl Extravaganza

Departments

89 The 2011/2012 Christmas Bird Count 89
– Paul W. Sweet

99 Field Notes: Winter Season 2011/2012 99
– Kelly J. McKay and Steven D. Bailey

Meadowlark 2012 – Vol. 21, No. 2

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42 Does body condition explain patterns of songbird density in response to urbanization?
– Jason D. Fischer and James R. Miller

Departments

45 Seventeenth Report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee
– Douglas F. Stotz

50 Field Notes: The 2011 Fall Migration 50
– Douglas F. Stotz

Photo Gallery:
56-57 Fall Birds of Illinois

Meadowlark 2012 – Vol. 21, No. 1

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2 Bohm Woods and the SIUE Nature Preserve: Valuable Conservation Assets for Southwestern Illinois
Richard L. Essner, Jr., Zachary R. French, Lane M. Richter, and Peter R. Minchin

6 The Bobolinking Project: Experiments in Field Ornithology
Kimberly Meyer Ramirez

9 Birding the Jane Addams Trail in Northwestern Illinois
– Keith and Mary Blackmore

Departments

Photo Essays:
10 Peregrine Falcons nest at St. Michael Church

20 Sandhill Cranes attempt nesting in central Illinois

30 Mississippi Kites continue nesting in Rockford

11 Field Notes: The 2011 Breeding Season
– Steven D. Bailey

Meadowlark 2011 – Vol. 20, No. 4

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122 An avian census of Lowell Park
– Pete Oliver

127 Birders act to protect Black-crowned Night-Heron rookery in Lincoln Park
– Carolyn A. Marsh

Twenty years of changes in Illinois bird life:
three views
129 – 1 The northward movement of the Blue -gray Gnatcatcher in Illinois
– Tara Beveroth
131 – 2 Rising numbers of American White Pelican in Illinois -a perspective
– Sheryl DeVore
132 – 3 Cooper’s Hawk: from rare to abundant, a suburban success story?
– Robert Fisher

133 Avian Annals: Twenty years ago in Meadowlark
– Sheryl DeVore

Photo Galleries:
134 Mega rarities
140-141 Spring Birds of Illinois

135 Field Notes: The 2011 spring migration
– Geoffrey A. Williamson

Meadowlark 2011 – Vol. 20, No. 3

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82 Anna’s Hummingbird: Illinois’ first record
– Vernon Kleen with details from Ann Hayes

84 Inbreeding of Illinois Peregrine Falcons
– Mary Hennen

86 IOS awards seven research grants 86
– Tara Beveroth

Departments

90 The 2011 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird Count
– Michael P. Ward and Tara Beveroth

97 Field Notes: The 2010/2011 Winter Season
– Kelly J. McKay

Meadowlark 2011 – Vol. 20, No. 2

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42 Impacts of habitat restoration on songbirds in Chicago area forest preserves:
preliminary results from the 2010 breeding season
— Sarah H. Cleeton and James R. Miller

47 Red-eyed Vireo’s migratory route fidelity in an urban environment
— Vernon M. Kleen

Departments

48 The 2010/2011 Illinois Christmas Bird Count
— Paul W. Sweet

58 Field Notes: The 2010 fall migration
— Douglas F. Stotz

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