| Patuxent Science Meeting 2006 Poster Abstract |
| | More than an Atlas: The Virginia Breeding Bird Book |
| | Clapp RB, Angle CJ |
| | Field work for the Virginia Atlas Project, an undertaking designed to map the distribution of |
| | Virginia's breeding birds, ended in 1989. Another four years elapsed before planning to present |
| | the results of this work. Since then there have been significant changes in perhaps 20% of the |
| | more than 200 species known to breed or have bred in the state. Consequently, it was |
| | determined that the work in progress, "The Breeding Birds of Virginia" be emended to include |
| | significant recent data both on bird distribution and aspects of their breeding biology relevant to |
| | the species in Virginia. The account for the Acadian Flycatcher, for example, includes breeding |
| | data published in 2005 as well as Breeding Bird Survey data through 2004. Because no book |
| | on the breeding birds of Virginia has been available since 1913, material was also compiled on |
| | migration and nesting data to make the eventual book that much more relevant to reader |
| | Friday, September 22, 2006 |