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Searching Hints
• Text contained within tables or charts is
not included in the search database, but can be searched within individual issues.
• Capitalization does not matter.
• Hyphens and apostrophes do matter.
Thus, a search for Black-bellied Plover (with hyphen) will return all instances of Black-bellied Plover,
black-bellied plover, Black-Bellied Plover, and BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, but will not
return any instances of Black bellied Plover (without the hyphen).
A search for Western scrub jay or scrub jay (no hyphen) will not return any instances of Western scrub-jay or
scrub-jay.
A search for Wilsons warbler (with no apostrophe) will not return
any instances of
Wilson's warbler.
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To be sure you get the most instances of a species, use only
a simple search term such as plover
or sandpiper.
• Also try searching on nicknames to pick up occurrences such
as "....We saw sooties and short taileds ...."
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Over 20 years of newsletters, style is not always consistent. Sometimes it's "shrub-steppe"; other times it's "shrubsteppe" or "shrub steppe. A search for "steppe" will return all instances. There are also the rare misspellings, for example, "Bickelton" rather than the correct "Bickleton." |
