Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:00:45 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bill Ellis Subject: Re: Birding List for Virginia In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whoops - I got fooled. Sorry. Trying hard now to actually be helpful - allow me to recommend this site on bird families, because the photos and discussion by Don Roberson are quite good: http://montereybay.com/creagrus/list.html This is another link to the same site, where he discusses options in avian taxonomy: http://montereybay.com/creagrus/essay.html Don may seem opinionated at times, but it is based on his field birding experience. The taxonomy of birds is in such a state of flux, there's always room for another opinion. Here's a site specializing in another of my favorite areas: Little Brown Jobs (aka Sparrows): http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/2001/sparrow/sparrow.htm Note that, even though House Sparrow is listed, the author disavows any relationship of it to true Emberizidae sparrows. (Maybe the author has heard from Bonnie.) Bill Ellis -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Bender Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:28 PM ... I believe this is actually the same list. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================