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WOSNews 83 Companion February / March 2003

Table of Contents

Chelan Ridge Raptor Migration Study Bob Davies
West Nile Virus in Washington Joe Buchanan
The Incredible Edible Crow - poem Murray Hansen
eBird Has Fledged Tim Cullinan
Review - The Birds of B.C. Vol. 4 Robert Vandenbosch
Site Guide - Pepper's Pond Michael Wile
Photo Gallery  
An Asterisk Means Maybe Michelle Blanchard
Rare Siberian Goose Visits Grays Harbor Patrick Sullivan
Birds vs. Nature Dennis Paulson
Important Bird Areas Tim Cullinan

Web Addresses

West Nile Virus Human health impact www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/ts/Zoo/WNV/WNV.html
Affected species http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/disease_information/west_nile_virus/AffectedSpeciesList2005.doc
Occurrence in Washington www.wa.gov/wdfw/
Cornell University’s Center for the Environment www.cfe.cornell.edu
Important Bird Areas   http://wa.audubon.org
Report Your Sightings Bird Banding Laboratory www.pwrc.nbs.gov/bbl

Photos

Chelan Ridge Raptor Migration Study
Ben Johnson releases a hatch-year female Goshawk which had been caught and fitted with a transmitter.  Photo by Bob Davies. Adult female Sharp-shinned Hawk. Photo by Bob Davies.
West Nile Virus An Asterisk Means Maybe
American Crow photo by Michael Hobbs. Whooping Crane photo by Fred K. Truslow, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
Photo Gallery
Prairie Falcon, Samish Flats, Skagit, 12/7/2002.
Photo by Joyce Meyer.
Lark Sparrow, Vantage, Kittitas, June 8, 2002.
Photo by Ruth Sullivan.

Osprey photo by Margaret Saint-Claire, Juanita Bay Wetlands Park, Kirkland, King, August 28, 2002.
Field Trip Reports
Great Gray Owl, Biscuit Ridge, Walla Walla, June 26, 2002.  Photo by Ruth Sullivan. Juvenile Barn Owl being knocked off a sign by an American Crow, May 23, 2001, Marymoor Park, Redmond, King.  Photos by Michael Hobbs.
Bean Goose visits Grays Harbor
 Bowerman Basin, Grays Harbor, 12/8/2002.
Photo by Patrick Sullivan.
K-Street in Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, 12/17/2002.
Photo by Ruth Sullivan.

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