The Virginia Society of Ornithology
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Last updated 16 October 2006
Resources
Recent discussions on the state listserve involved chickadee identification and referenced papers written by Gene Sattler and published in The Auk. Both the morphology paper and the song paper are posted here with the kind permission of Gene Sattler, the American Ornithologists Union, and The Auk.
morphology paper pdf 1MB
song paper pdf 403KB
CCB and VSO put all Raven issues online
Teta Kain has provided two indexes for all Raven issues, volumes 1 through 74. There is a Title Index (800 KB) and a Bird Index (2MB), Both are in Rich Text Format.
David Sibley's Discussion on separating Cackling Goose in the field
Gleanings from the Web An archive of all of Gene Sattler's incredible quarterly synopsis of birds reported in Virginia gleaned from the internet.
SORA The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive. This unbelievable resource makes most ornithological articles published in the major journals searchable and available around the world.
OWL Ornithological Worldwide Literature. From their website: "a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology. A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index."
The Birds of Bath and Highland Counties. The new (2nd) edition has been
completed. Adobe® pdf (268 kb). Our thanks to Rick Webb.