Greetings Again Colorado Birders:
My apologies for the double-posting, but I forgot to include a couple of important pieces of information in my earlier post about the Breeding Bird Atlas website and book. I am so excited about the upcoming publication of the book I neglected to include the following (but see original post pasted below): 1) Colorado Field Ornithologists (CFO) is one of five supporting Partners to the Atlas and in doing so have contributed critically to long-term conservation of Colorado's birds. Publication of the Atlas II book would not be possible without significant financial contributions from the CFO! 2) Breeding Bird Atlases are primarily volunteer driven. *Hundreds* of CFO members volunteered their time to collect Atlas data across the state over 6 years (2007-2012). In addition, CFO members also wrote many of the 262 detailed species accounts in the Atlas book. Their contributions to long-term bird conservation should be celebrated and will be forever chronicled in the book! 2) One of the best reasons for buying the Atlas II book---the striking illustrations created by Pueblo-based artist Radeaux! The Atlas includes full color illustrations for roughly 270 species including images of adult birds, young, nests, and surrounding habitats. As an avid and long-time Colorado birder, Radeaux's unique talent brings Colorado's breeding bird to life in the Atlas! Thanks for listening!!! *Original Post* "The new website database for *The Second Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas* is live and available for use at *www.cobreedingbirdatlasii.org <http://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 <http://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/ab5d49a6-e1ce-44f7-ba46-20db302e1b59%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
