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2019 Wildlife Newsletter

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supports the new Birds of Nebraska – Online H ave you ever wondered if a bird you see in your backyard or elsewhere in Nebraska is supposed to be there or whether it has wandered far from its normal range? Perhaps you are seeing more of a certain bird and are contemplating whether the species has increased in numbers or expanded its range in Nebraska. There is now a convenient website, called Birds of Nebraska – Online (www.birdsofnebraska.org), where you can find answers to such bird distribution questions and learn more about the natural history of birds that inhabit our state. The website summarizes, in individual species accounts, the status, distribution and temporal occurrence of 512 species that regularly occur in or that have been reported for Nebraska. Each species account includes basic information about the bird's occurrence in our state, and for regularly occurring species, a map showing its distribution in the state. The project was created by W. Ross Silcock and the author with financial support from the Nebraska Game and Park Commission's Wildlife Conservation Fund. The Birds of Nebraska — Online is a complete revision of the author's previous state bird reference, Birds of Nebraska: Their Distribution and Temporal Occurrence, which was co-authored with the late Roger S. Sharpe and published as a book by the University of Nebraska Press in 2001. The authors considered publishing the new version as a book, but cost-savings, availability to larger audience, and flexibility favored the online form. Publishing online also allows for frequent updates of bird occurrence patterns, which are always changing, and other information - as you never know what bird might show up in your backyard. ✔ 3 Trumpeter swan (above) and white-faced ibis (below) are two species whose recent range expansion in Nebraska is documented in Birds of Nebraska – Online. By Joel Jorgensen, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Ornithologist PHOTO BY CHRIS MASADA PHOTO BY BOB GRIER

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