Date: 8/1/26 5:30 pm From: Marsha Salett <msalett...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] August 2026 issue of Bird Observer now online
Massbirders -
Bird Observer announces that our August 2026 issue is now online at www.birdobserver.org <http://www.birdobserver.org/>.
Where to Go Birding highlights “Birding Grassland Rarities at Shea Airfield, Union Point, South Weymouth, Massachusetts” by Matt Sanda.
Articles feature “Two Decades of Extreme Pelagic Birding” by Naeem Yusuff and “Reflecltions on Hog Island Camp: Celebrating 90 Years of Nature Teaching” by John Kricher. The photo essay depicts birds of Hog Island.
Field Notes describe “New England’s First Limpkin” by Lily Morello and “Hummingbirds and Downy Woodpeckers Share a Feeder” by Marsha C. Salett.
As usual, we include Musings from the Blind Birder by Martha Steele, About Books by Mark Lynch, Bygone Birds by Robert H. Stymeist, Bird Sightings by Jason Forbes and Robert H. Stymeist, Hot Birds by Joshua Rose, and Wayne Petersen’s At a Glance.
The cover art features John Sill’s Little Blue Heron. “About the Cover: Little Blue Heron” was written by John Kricher.
All of Bird Observer’s content from 1973 to 2015 has been digitized to SORA, the Searchable Ornithological Research Archive at https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/. You can access articles through SORA as well as through Bird Observer’s online archives.
Bird Observer is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Marsha Salett (she/her)
Editor
Bird Observer
<msalett...> <mailto:<msalett...> Needham, MA
