#Quick print downtown tulsa update#

I have again asked a number of birders around the state to contribute areas accounts of these areas that focus on the bird life.īut not all areas have someone 'assigned' to update them! So please look at your favorite birding areas and if it is out of date, please send me some updates. However, please note that most of these 'new' areas do not yet have much information specific to bird finding. For these I generally culled information from other web sites (USFWS, The Nature Conservancy, etc.) or from OKBirds, to create the accounts. that did not exist or were not known about 20 years ago.

I also added a number of accounts for places like Red Slough, Hackberry Flat, etc. I have asked a number of birders around the state to review these accounts, and over the next several months hope to bring most of these current to reflect the situation in 2007. At the top of each account I have indicated when the last update was made, and many are simply the original 1986 account. I updated as many of the accounts as I was able, but there are many places I have never been to, or it has been years since I last visited. I found situations where each was the most appropriate tool to use. Most include the original maps drawn by Byron Ball, and these have been supplemented with the latest mapping technologies, particularly Google Maps, Google Earth, MSN Maps, Microsoft Streets and Trips and Delorme Street Atlas. The core of the site is the 1986 area accounts. TAS may again publish a revised edition, but for now have decided to make the information available here on our web site. And now, several years and hundreds of hours later, the project has grown beyond all reason, but is finally almost finished! That is the beauty of an on-line guide - it can be continually updated, so it will never be truly 'finished.' So I slowly began scanning in and digitizing the accounts. But we eventually did decide to make the information from the old guide available on our web site.

Several years ago the TAS board was discussing if we should issue a new edition, but understandably no one wanted to take on the effort. It was the only statewide birding guide ever published. If you've been birding in Oklahoma any length of time, read through the acknowledgement pages of the first and second editions for a trip down memory lane! And be sure to read the Foreword to the first edition written by George Miksch Sutton. Each was a collaborative effort of many birders throughout the state, a veritable who's who of Oklahoma birding and ornithology of those past decades. They not only covered Tulsa, but the entire state. Byron Ball created the maps for the 1986 edition. The first edition was published in 1973, edited by Lois Rodgers, and a second edition in 1986, edited by Elizabeth Hayes.

Lyn Dickerson, 1922-2004, John Dickerson, 1920-2001Īs some of you older-timers may know (I guess I now qualify as an 'old-timer'!) Tulsa Audubon has in the past published A Guide to Birding in Oklahoma.

Quick print downtown tulsa