Submit Sightings to North American Birds


How to SubmitYour Sightings For The Great Basin Regional Report in the Journal NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

** Note: If you are submitting any sightings to North American Birds which involve species that are on the Nevada Review List or are not currently on the Nevada Checklist, please also visit the Nevada Bird Records Committee section of this website and submit documentation for your sighting to the Nevada Bird Records Committee."

North American Birds is a quarterly journal that publishes original articles and regional summaries on the distribution and abundance of wild birds in North America. The lifeblood of the journal is a series of about thirty regional reports, one of which covers the entirety of the states of Utah and Nevada. Please submit your Utah and Nevada bird sightings to either of the Great Basin Regional Editor:

Rick Fridell
3505 West 290 North
Hurricane UT 84737
rfridell@redrock.net





Reporting periods and deadlines are as follows:

Spring (1 March - 31 May) Deadline: 10 June
Summer (1 June - 31 July) Deadline: 10 August
Fall (1 August - 30 November) Deadline: 10 December
Winter (1 December - 28/29 February) Deadline: 10 March



Please submit your data in phylogenetic sequence (“checklist order”), and please submit your data in the following format:

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As an example, your submission might look like this:

SPECIES LOCATION COUNTY STATE NUMBER DATE OBSERVER(S) COMMENT(S)
Common Loon Pyramid Lake Washoe NV 225 14 October Steve Summers high count
Horned Grebe Lake Mead Clark NV 1 3 November Steve Summers et al.
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Horned Grebe Washoe Lake Washoe NV 2 30 October Steve Summers & Ted Floyd first local record
Surf Scoter Pyramid Lake Washoe NV 5 14 October Steve Summers & Rick Fridell
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Winter Wren Garr Ranch Davis UT 2 22 November Steve Summers
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For a summary of all known sightings in Utah during the past month, click here.
For a summary of all known sightings in Nevada during the past month, click here.
For a complete listing and searchable archives of all known sightings in Nevada since 1 June 2000, click here.