[obol] archives?

[Paul T. Sullivan]

OBOL:

How would one go about searching for a past sighting of a bird in Oregon? 
Say, a Masked Whatsit wintering in Umatilla county in 1988?

1. I know individual birders keep lists of birds they've seen.  Some folks 
have lists of first arrivals, nesting, first sightings, etc, from other 
observers.
2. Oregon Birds, the journal, has printed records going back to 1975.
3. The Oregon Birds Records Committee has records of rare birds going back a 
bit farther.
4. The OBOL archive doesn't begin until Dec. 1999.
5. How far back does Birdnotes.net go?
6. The Breeding Bird Atlas covers 5 years in the middle of the 1990's.

What happened to the Coot Project?
What happened to the archives of the first 5-9 years of OBOL?
Folks were compiling OBOL sightings by county is a web-accessible data base, 
but is that effort still alive?

Just curious.

Good birding, everyone,

Paul T. Sullivan