Quite true, although a website need not be maintained to live on long past
it's useful life.  Lots o' dead ones still out there from the very beginning
- 1993.

I have a copy of the first truly "modern" breeding bird atlas, the Atlas of
Breeding Birds of Vermont.  It set the standard, and so did the years of
hard work leading up to its publication by VINS in 1985  Many of the
techniques and protocols in use today for breeding bird surveys were
developed in Vermont.

 I still use it for reference when I go home, even though much has changed
for bird life in Northern New England in the last 22 years.  MOS undoubtedly
considered this pioneering work in the publication of its current atlas, if
I'm not mistaken.


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Frank Boyle
Rohrersville, MD

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