Birds of New York State
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	Table of Contents	New York Species

INTRODUCTION

A long tradition of significant publications, beginning with the work of DeKay (1844), and continuing to the present, chronicles the natural history of New York's birds. In addition to DeKay's pioneering work, volumes by Eaton (1910, 1914), Bull (1974), Andrle and Carroll (1988), and Levine (1998) offer comprehensive information about the birds of the state and contain extensive bibliographies. Periodic updates to a bibliography of New York State ornithology also appear in The Kingbird (e.g., Jones 2000), the quarterly journal of the Federation of New York State Bird Clubs, published since 1950. Details of recent and seasonal occurrences of birds throughout the state are also documented four times a year in The Kingbird. Christmas Bird Counts, originated by Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1900, span more than 100 years of documentation of winter bird population trends. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the pioneering work of Arthur A. Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg at Cornell University established studies of bird sounds as an important area of enquiry in professional ornithology. The work of Kellogg and Allen also contributed significantly to facilitating the learning of bird sounds by those studying living birds in the field (Allen 1962, Kellogg 1962). For breeding birds, geographic distributions are documented in detail by the first breeding bird atlas (Andrle and Carroll 1988), and breeding bird population trends can be determined from the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), begun by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1965. There are more than 100 BBS routes distributed randomly across the state, now under the auspices of the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey (Sauer et al. 2001). Recent population trends for breeding bird species from New York, based on BBS data, are summarized by Smith (1998), and habitat associations for breeding bird species are described by Smith and Gregory (1998) and Smith et al. (2001).

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