Date: 12/27/25 2:31 pm From: Ryan Winkleman via groups.io <rswinkleman...> Subject: [OrangeCountyBirding] North American Birds update
All,
I would like to announce that with the completion of Orange County's Fall 2025 report, I am now stepping away from my role as our *North American Birds* subregional report author. Sam Bressler has graciously agreed to take over in my place. Orange County's dedicated reports go back nearly 50 years, when Sylvia Gallagher began writing them in 1979. Doug Willick took over for her in 1985, and I took over for Doug in 2018. Sam now becomes our fourth author and I am confident that with his strong interest in status and distribution and promoting countywide birding, particularly underbirded inland areas (like me!!!), he will do a great job.
I will still continue to write weekly rare bird alert reports for his benefit. If you are used to emailing rarity reports to me you can continue to do so if you prefer and I will forward them to Sam as I think appropriate, but otherwise I would encourage notable observations, primarily those not on eBird, to be sent to Sam at <pacificgoldenplover...> moving forward.
