[Maine-birds] Latest issue of the journal "North American Birds" FREE

Hi folks,

Want to read about last spring's amazing records and see color photos of the rarities? For many decades, the journal North American Birds has been the only journal to provide a complete overview of our continent's birdlife, including outstanding records, range extensions and contractions, population dynamics, and changes in migration patterns or seasonal occurrence. The journal covers the entirety of the North American continent, including Canada, the United States, all of the West Indies and Caribbean, and Middle America from Mexico to Panama.

For the first time, an entire issue is available in full color, and it's FREE to anyone.

Go to: http://nab.aba.org

One can download the entire issue (60 megabytes), read it online with a web browser, or download specific pages. (Use the Adobe PDF button on the toolbar across the top to download). The journal will be moving to an electronic (digital) format in the future, not necessarily in the form presented here but likely something similar and available as a PDF. To do this, we need more subscribers.

I advertise this because North American Birds provides an essential role in ornithology, one in which many of you participate through your sightings. Read any avifauna about any state, province, or region and one finds hundreds of citations to the observations reported in the journal. Anyone can contribute too (see the addresses of the regional compilers in your region of interest or birding).

I strongly urge you to consider subscribing. It is how I learned much of what I know about bird distribution and how I keep up with changes. You don't need to be an American Birding Association member to subscribe. I have been associate editor (no compensation) for many years and have subscribed since 1970 (and I have nearly all issues going back to the beginning of the journal as its predecessor, Audubon Field Notes, in the 1940s). It's worth it.

Subscription info is here:  http://www.aba.org/nab/

Historical, black-and-white copies of issues are available for personal use and research. These are free on SORA here: http://sora.unm.edu/node/209

Louis Bevier

Fairfield, Maine