Searchable Newsletter Archives
Below are searchable back issues of WOS newsletters (
WOSNews). Each one can be searched individually, or you can search all of them at once.
To read or search any individual issue, click on that issue.
To search all the issues at once, enter a word or words in the box below.
To search issues within a certain date range, select the months and years as indicated below.
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.
• 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 ...."
• 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."
