Date: 10/1/26 7:48 pm From: Marsha Salett <msalett...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] October 2026 Bird Observer now online
Massbirders -
Bird Observer announces that our October 2026 issue is now online at www.birdobserver.org <http://www.birdobserver.org/>.
Where to Go Birding highlights “Birding Reid State Park in Georgetown, Maine” by Ethan Whitaker.
Articles feature the “First Breeding Record of Purple Martin (Progne subis) on Nantucket, Massachusetts” by Libby Buck and the “Seventh Report of the Rhode Island Avian Records Committee” by Shaibal S. Mitra (Chair), Paul L’Etoile (Secretary), Robert Emerson, Rachel Farrell, Alan Kneidel, Samuel Miller, and Scott Tsagarakis. The photo essay depicts birds of the Seventh RIARC Report.
Field Notes describe “Evening Exodus Flights of Sea Ducks in Plum Island Sound” by Miles Brengle and “Bridled Tern Comes to Scituate and Birders Notice” by John Kricher.
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 Steve Hamlin's Scissor-tailed Fl.ycatcher. “About the Cover: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher” 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
