Greetings Colorado Birders:
The new website database for *The Second Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas* is live and available for use at *www.cobreedingbirdatlasii.org*. There you may view partial results of Atlas II including current species distribution maps and comparative maps of distribution across Atlas I and Atlas II (20-yr interval). The website allows users to query any species and view a list of Atlas blocks in which each species was detected with the highest breeding evidence. Conversely, users may query any Atlas block, priority or non-priority, and view a list of species and highest breeding evidence for each block. What you will *NOT* see on the website are detailed accounts for 262 Colorado breeders, plus short accounts for about two dozen more. To gain access to that information you must purchase *The Second Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas*, a 750+ page book that follows in the footsteps of the landmark achievement *Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas*, published in 1998 and edited by Colorado’s own Hugh E. Kingery. At this time, we are working on the final edits to the book layout in preparation for publication and printing. Co-publishers Colorado Bird Atlas Partnership and Colorado Parks and Wildlife seek to pre-sell as many copies as possible and implement a mass distribution upon book launch. Pre-orders will gauge the print run and insure coverage of the many costs of publication. Due to the high costs of printing, we will likely print only slightly more books than the number of pre-orders we receive; thus, few copies may be available after the initial book launch. If you would like to add this important book to your collection, please consider placing a pre-order soon. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go directly towards publication costs. Any amount leftover will be saved for the initiation of Atlas III (in 2027)! Breeding Bird Atlases are critical for large-scale, long-term monitoring of breeding bird populations, unparalleled by other techniques. You can support continued Atlas efforts in Colorado by pre-ordering *The Second Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas*. Please visit *www.cobreedingbirdatlasii.org* to pre-order your book today! Good Birding, Lynn E. Wickersham Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas II Statewide Project Manager Durango, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/359dacb6-476b-4afc-8342-74ad29bff310%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
