[obol] Bird illustratons

[sandyleapt at comcast.net]

I'd like some illustrations of bird silhouettes as they fly overhead.  In particular I'd like Starlings, Vaux's Swifts, Cedar Waxwings, Rough-winged swallows.  Maybe a sample groupings as they fly overhead.  I seem to have all of the above over the house at certain times of year.   I would like to be more sure of my identification before listing them on birdnotes. (thousands and thousands of starlings this time of year).

Thanks

Sandy Leaptrott
NE Portland
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From: Alan Contreras <acontrer at MINDSPRING.COM>
> I mentioned last week that portions of Birds of Oregon are being condensed
> into a field-friendly reference that Oregon birders can easily carry with
> them, if not in a pocket, certainly in a pack or car.
> 
> We are planning to include some illustrations in this handbook.  Our intent
> is to include those that are most likely to be useful to Oregon observers,
> and which are not covered well in field guides, or covered in such a way as
> to be not as useful in the field as we might wish.  It is possible that
> we'll have funding for 8 pages of color plates, but certainly some line and
> wash art.
> 
> We'd like some input on what Oregon observers really want that they don't
> have.  Here are some ideas that we have had so far.
> 
> 1 Page Types of Canada and Cackling Goose (photos or art)
> .65 page flying loons (art) possibly include Red-necked and Horned Grebe
> .35 page cormorants in flight (art)
> 1 page "Olympic" gull variants (photos?) including a pure Western and Gwing
> 1 page alcids (art) on water and in flight
> .5 page juvenile and subadult swallows
> Forms of Spotted Towhee? art
> Carpodacus finches?
> Spizella sparrows? 
> White-crowned Sparrow forms? art
> pelagic seabirds in flight?
>  
> COLOR 1
> .5 page Least Sandpiper plumages (photos)
> .5 pageWestern Sandpiper plumages (photos)
> Or by season: 
> July (adult Western and Least)
> early Sep (horrible mix)
> late Oct (plain WESA, Least, Dunlin, Lings)
> 
> COLOR 2
> .35 page young rails (art)
> .65 page California Gull variants (photos and art?)
> 
>  COLOR 3
> .35 page Hutton's Vireo and Ruby-crowned Kinglet (art)
> .5 page Marsh Wren and House Wren plumages (photos and art)
> .35 page OPEN 
> 
> COLOR 4-5
> western Veery, Hermit subspecies, Swainson's subspecies (2 full facing
> pages)
>  
> COLOR 6
> .65 page Savannah Sparrow subspecies (photos or art?)
> .35 page plus dull Vesper, montanus Song? (photos or art?)
> 
> COLOR 7
> Open
> 
> COLOR 8
> Open
> 
> Please feel free to comment on these ideas and suggest others.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alan Contreras
> EUGENE, OREGON
> 
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> 
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