Birds of the Lower Ohio River Valley in West Virginia

Acknowledgements

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 Wendell L. Argabrite, Michael Griffith, Dr. Gary O. Rankin, and Harry E. Slack, III collaborated to produce the final species accounts on this web site.  Wendell L. Argabrite provided the computations used for presenting Christmas Bird Count data.  Lloyd F. Kiff, Cathie B. Slack and Roy S. Slack provided valuable input for content and design of the site.  Tom Dotson and Steve Wilson, of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, provided data on waterfowl.  David Patick provided valuable data since 2000.

 George A. Hall's book West Virginia Birds (1983) and Albert R. Buckelew, Jr. and George A. Hall's book The West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas (1994) have provided invaluable insight to our knowledge of West Virginia's avifauna statewide.  Edward L. Seeber and Ralph M. Edeburn's mimeo publication Birds of the Lower Ohio River Valley in West Virginia (1952) was the first major compilation of our knowledge of avifauna of this area.  This was followed by Ralph M. Edeburn, Edward L. Seeber, Holwell K. Land, Hugh C. Land, and Lloyd F. Kiff's mimeo publication Birds of the Lower Ohio River Valley in West Virginia (1960).  Lloyd F. Kiff, Thomas D. Igou, Harry E. Slack, III, and Leon Wilson's publication Birds of the Lower Ohio River Valley in West Virginia (1986) was the third major compilation of our knowledge of avifauna of this area.  This web site is the fourth major effort, and first using the internet, to present our knowledge of avifauna of this region.

 Observers cited are indicated by initials as follows:  Gary Ackert (GA), Scott Albaugh (SA), Don Anderson (DA), Phyllis Argabrite (PA), Wendell Argabrite (WA), Jon Benedetti (JOB), John Blomberg (JNB), Steve Boler (SB), Ben Borda (BB), Joe Browning (JB), Deborah Buetler (DB), Kevin Cade (KC), Shawn Cade (SC), Simon Collier SIC), Derek Courtney (DK); Todd Deal (TD), Beverley Delidow (BD), Paul Drescher (PD); Cindy Ellis (CE), Jeanette Esker (JE), Gary Felton (GF), Fred Fitch (FF), Mike Forman (MF), Janet Fout (JF), Monty Fowler (MFO), Pedram Ghafourifar (PG), Mike Griffith (MG), John Handlan (JHA); C. O. Handley, Sr. (COH), Jeanne Hubbard (JH), John L. Hubbard (JLH), George Hurley (GH), Jonathan Igou (JI), Tom Igou (TI), Connie Katholi (CK), Cam Kazmierski (CK), Kim Kazmierski (KK), Richard Kazmierski (RR), Janet Keating (JAK), Marjorie Keatley (MKE), Debbie Keener (DK), Julie Kiff (JK), Leon Wilson Chapter Brooks Bird Club (LWC); Lloyd Kiff (LK), Maxine Kiff (MK), Robert Kletzly (RK), Holwell K. Land (HKL), Hugh C. Land (HCL), Tom Milewski (TM), Bill Murphy (BM), Janice Musser (JM), Jim McCormick (JMc), Kelley Napier (KN); Todd Neal (TN), John Northeimer (JN), Virginia Olsen (VO), Matt Orsie (MO), David Patick (DP), Maggi Perl (MP), Keith Peters (KP), Gary Rankin (GR), Janis Rankin (JR), Monica Rankin (MR), Dave Rieger (DR), Edward Seeber (ES), Tom Shields (TS), Harry Slack (HS), Roy Slack (RS), J. Lawrence Smith (JLS), Shelly Smith (SS), Margaret Straley (MS), Jerie Stewert (JS), Pam Sturm (PS), Bob Summers (BS), Amy Talbert (AMT), Rennie Talbert (RT), Marcus Terneus (MT), John Tharp (JTH), Arline Thorn (AT), Paul Thorn (PT), Jim Triplett (JT), Randy Urian (RA); Charles Viers (CV), John Waggy (JWY), Allen Waldron (AW), Mindy Waldron (MW), John Waugaman (JW), Leon Wilson (LW), Robert Wilson (RW), Hannah Wisinsky (HW), Sheila Wisinsky (SW), Dianne Wood (DW), Doug Wood (DOW), Bev Wright (BV) and Robert Yunick (RY), Andrew Zettle AZ).