Date: 6/8/25 7:55 am From: Bill Fontenot via groups.io <williamrodneyfontenot...> Subject: Re: [labird] "Fifty Years of Changes to Louisiana’s Birds" by David Muth
David —
Your years of writing regional bird records reports for the ABA have prepared you well for producing this piece. As important as it is to the LOS archives, it has also unleashed a flood of wonderful memories involving both birds and birding fellowship that accompanied each discovery. And yes, Lowery would freak out re: a glimpse of Louisiana’s present day avifauna. Many of us are pretty freaked out as well.
Thanks for putting in the time and effort to produce this piece!
Bill Fontenot
Lafayette, LA
> On Jun 7, 2025, at 2:50 PM, Sandra Barbier via groups.io <sandabar10...> wrote:
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> Like Lowery, a very good read and a good thing for birds! Thanks.
> Sandy
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>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM Paul Conover via groups.io <zoiseaux=
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>> Labird,
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>> New on the LOS Website:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Find it at: http://losbird.org/documents/OccPubs/50YearsMuth.pdf >>
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>> Thanks,
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>> Paul Conover
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> Sandra Barbier
> LaPlace, LA
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