Date: 6/4/25 1:38 pm From: Paul Conover via groups.io <zoiseaux...> Subject: [labird] "Fifty Years of Changes to Louisiana’s Birds" by David Muth
Labird,
New on the LOS Website:
Noted Louisiana birder and raconteur David Muth has keyboarded a
wonderful narrative covering the species that have been added to the
Louisiana Checklist since the publication of Lowery's final edition
(1974) of Louisiana Birds. It's a fascinating and easy flowing summary
that gives a brief history of each discovery and provides short general
discussions that place each addition into the broader perspective of
population trends, range expansions, introductions, weather events, or
the pure dumb serendipity of vagrancy, with a healthy dash of anecdotal
observations on the changes in birding, technology, and the Louisiana
birding landscape that have happened over that span.
Highly recommended! If you like reading the species accounts in
Lowery, you'll find this a worthy addition. I'm looking forward to the
promised Part II of his project.
