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Thank you for sending me the Fall Issue 2000 of Birdscapes. I was fascinated by the many fine articles and was pleased that Roger Holmes was honored with a Plan award.

The information inside the front cover states that a free subscription may be requested from you. I hereby make that request. As a member of the Aleutian Canada Goose recovery team, I have had the good fortune to know and work with wildlife people in Russia and Japan in connection with the effort to restore the Aleutian Canada Goose to Asia. I am sure that some of these folks would be interested in receiving Birdscapes and might even provide a basis for some future articles.

Forrest Lee
Jamestown, North Dakota

And Then From Japan

My name is Toshio Iekuchi. I am a member of the Japanese Association for Wild Geese Protection and a field researcher, but I am not professional ornithologist. I study about the migratory route of the Bean Goose and their wintering ecology with the help of the Russian Academy of Science, Far Eastern Branch. Since 1984, we have also been making a best effort to reestablish a breeding population of the Aleutian Canada Goose in East Asia in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Mr. Forrest Lee is our great grandfather in my mind. He always shows us a best answer and advises us when we have some difficulties in our restoration project. We are now getting positive results in our project.

Thank you very much for sending me the beautiful printed material, and I hope to see another issue.

Toshio Iekuchi
Miyagi, Japan

Family Affairs

I saw your wonderful magazine for the first time today. I know that my granddaughter and I would love to read it together. Please sign her up for a subscription. Thank you.

Duncan and Phoebe Kirk
Richland, Washington

Enjoyed so much and thought the issue of Birdscapes was great! Keep it up. I do wish to transfer some of my appreciation and enthusiasm to my grandchildren. I would be most pleased if you would send me five copies, so I can pass on to my grandchildren. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Len W. Samuelson
Coon Rapids, Minnesota

A Common Link

I would like to be put on the mailing list for Birdscapes. I am also webmaster for Ornithology: the Science of Birds at http://www.ornithology.com, so if you would like a link to Birdscapes,
I'd be happy to provide one.

Roger Lederer
Dean, College of Natural Sciences
California State University, Chico

Editor: I did, and he did. Roger's website is filled with links any bird lover would like to get his/her mouse on, and ours is now among them.

Putting It to Work

Birdscapes is an excellent publication. Thank you for providing a copy for my office! You provide wonderful working examples of wildlife habitat conservation practices on the landscape. If possible, I'd like to add several of our field staff to the list of recipients.

Calvin W. DuBrock
Pennsylvania Game Commission

Please add my name to receive your free subscription to Birdscapes. It's an excellent publication that we'll put to use. Thanks!

Bert Jellison
Wyoming Game and Fish Department

At a recent meeting of several of us who are working on habitat projects in Montana, I discovered that not very many are currently on the mailing list for Birdscapes and should be. We would appreciate it if you would please add the following to the subscription list (eight names listed). If their subscription could start with the issue that just came out, it would be great. It's excellent, and having it will help them in their work.

Jim Hansen
Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks

Please send me the premiere issue of Birdscapes magazine and enter my name on your mailing list for all future issues. Your publication should be a significant help in my bird conservation work over the next few years. I am striving to organize and find simultaneous grant funding for Important Bird Area Coordinators across five states as part of the National Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Ric Zarwell
Lansing, Iowa

Educational Material

I recently received a copy of the Birdscapes and found it very informative and well done. I am active with the Linking Communities partnership covered in the publication. As a public school teacher, shorebird census volunteer, and avid birder, I would like to request a subscription to the publication. Thank you for helping to bring attention to the wonderful things going on with regard to the protection and conservation of birds and their habitat and the tremendous good that can be done through cooperation.

Yaeko Bryner
Odgen, Utah

Long Lost Friend

This is a voice (if one can call an e-mail a voice!) from the past. I just received the Birdscapes publication, and I wanted to tell you how impressed I am with it. Normally, I don't read newsletters, but in this case, I not only looked at it, I read most of the articles. It is very well presented, and for an executive with little time, accessible. For me, now working in the Netherlands albeit in the same business, it was really fun to catch up with goings on throughout North America, and with such a wide range of activities. Please pass my compliments on to your fellow national coordinators in Canada and Mexico.

Jim McCuaig, Executive Director
Wetlands International - Africa, Europe, Middle East
The Netherlands

All for One and One for All

I am delighted to see Birdscapes appearCa new effort focusing on practical management for all birds. Waterfowl 2000 was fine, but this is just great!

It is broad enough to appeal to practical conservationists, waterfowl managers, hunters, recreational birders, and concerned businesses, focusing on the important common ground we all share. Indeed, some fine partnerships are in the making.

Paul J. Baicich
Editor, Birding
American Birding Association
Exciting Progress

Thank you for keeping me on the mailing list for Birdscapes and congratulations on the new format. It combines beauty and information into an outstanding publication. It's exciting to watch the progress of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan and the growth of the international bird conservation movement.

Ken Wich
Retired Director, Division of Fish and Wildlife
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Earlton, New York

Conservation in Action

I am a retired professor of biology who, with my son Sigurd, does a weekly census of waterbirds and their associates as volunteers at the Chautauqua NWR (National Wildlife Refuge) in Illinois. I would very much appreciate receiving a copy of the fall issue of Birdscapes, which I had a brief opportunity to peruse recently. I should also appreciate your entering my name and address to your list of subscribers for future issues. I am very much impressed with the format and layout of your evolving publication, which certainly packs a lot of information on conservation in action. Well done!

Richard G. Bjorklund
Topeka, Illinois

Doctor's Prescription

I happened upon a copy of Birdscapes while visiting my eye doctor recently. I would love to get a subscription for my daughter who is a PhD student at the University of Oregon in conservation biology and who is a bird-watcher. Is it possible?

Judy Morgan
Bethany, West Virginia

Oops

What a fine issue of the latest Birdscapes! Love the cover!!!!! Read many of the articlesCall very well done. What I most enjoyed was that all the articles were short and to the point, not several pages each. Wonderful to see so much progress in the better sense of restoring our wetlands and other valuable resources.

As a well known picky birder/biologist, I did note a few items: 1) The watersnake on page 25 (Winter Issue) is not listed on the U.S. list as endangered or threatened, so far as I know. A Midwestern subspecies is listed as threatened (copperbelly water snake). 2) The sandpipers pictured on page 28 look to be mostly westerns with at least four dunlins in the foreground group. White-rumps would be the same size as the dunlins and have less reddish tones on the upper surface and more streaking on the breast while still in breeding plumage (all these are adult birds in breeding plumage). I know how slides can get mislabeled through the many hands they pass, so you are just a victim of the process.

Considering the magnitude of your material, these are relatively minor items. A really fine publication! Keep up the super fine work!

Jay Sheppard
Laurel, Maryland

Editor: Jay is correct. The plain-bellied water snake featured on page 25 of the Winter Issue is not a Federally listed Aendangered@ species. The adjective, however, is not relegated to use with Federally listed species only. In the context of the story, Running out of Reptiles, I did not feel the adjective was inappropriate. As to the sandpipers on page 28, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service slide mount was marked white-rumped sandpiper. Jay, thanks for keeping me on my toes and making me a better editor. Thanks, too, for volunteering to be the U.S.'s bird identification expert. (You find a problem in this magazine, you become part of the solution

Corrections

In the Winter 2001 Issue of Birdscapes, the photograph on the page 18 article, Making Connections in Ontario's Lake St. Clair, incorrectly listed Mr. Jim Burpee as President of Ontario Power Generation. He is actually the Senior Vice President, Electricity Production for Ontario Power Generation.