KANSAS ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY Eugene A. Young, Editor-KOS Bulletin Biology Department, Northern Oklahoma College 1220 E. Grand, P.O. Box 310 Tonkawa, Oklahoma 74653-0310 E-mail: Eugene.Young@north-ok.edu Dear Compiler: Please make as many copies as you need of the Kansas Midwinter Bird Count form for 2012-2013 and the invitations to membership for any non-kos participants. The arrangement of species on the form reflects the current AOU Check-list. If you are not a compiler this year, please see that the form(s) is passed on to your successor. New this year, you can submit your report in ELECTRONIC FORMAT using the attached PDF file. Please submit a list of all participants on the enclosed sheet. There is no fee for counting birds on the Kansas Ornithological Society counts or the National Audubon Counts (NEW THIS YEAR). Please edit the count carefully. Pay close attention to your totaling of individuals and species as well as your calculation of party-hours and party-miles. Party-hours and party-miles are reported exclusive of feeder hours and owling hours and miles. Your starting time is the time the regular count starts, NOT the time you start owling. To calculate party-hours, ascertain how many hours each party spent in the field and add those numbers. The total is inserted following Total party-hours. The same procedure is followed to arrive at the total party-miles. Please round all party-miles to the nearest quarter mile and party-hours to the nearest quarter hour. Be sure to use the correct latitude/longitude for your counts. If you have GPS, please take an up-to-date accurate reading and indicate which datum you used. This data will be used to make more accurate maps on the KOS web page. Also be sure you use the correct year your count started in the area you are presently counting in. Inform feeder watchers that birds coming to feeders should not be summed over the day. Only the high number of individuals of any species seen at one time should be added. Please remember that substantiating details should always be submitted for any species (or form) which is out of range, out of season, or difficult to identify. The best rule is that if it is a good bird, or not regular in winter, it should have details included. Otherwise it will be omitted. For species that rarely occur, please indicate on your sheet (hard copy) or via e-mail (electronic copy). For unusually high numbers of normally occurring species, please indicate on your sheet (hard copy) or via e-mail (electronic copy). The official Audubon count dates are from December 14 - January 5. KOS will accept counts from our State from December 9 - January 13. If you wait until the last weekend to do your count, you must submit your results immediately, the next day via e-mail or telephone (January 14 th ). Remember to submit the exact same report to KOS that you submit to Audubon. Also, if you have details about present versus past counts, include it. It helps immensely in production of the summary. If you do your count in the early part of the count period, please don t wait until January 14 to submit it. Any help you can give me by sending in your report immediately after you finish your count is appreciated very much. Have an exciting count! We look forward to receiving them prior to January 14 th. Please display or pass out the enclosed invitations to membership in KOS. Many of your participants may be new to birding and would benefit from becoming a member. NOTE: send all completed hard copy reports to Max C. Thompson this year (1729 E. 11th Ave., Winfield, KS 67156), and all electronic copy reports to both Max C. Thompson (Email: maxt@cox.net) and to the Editor (Eugene.Young@north-ok.edu). If you do not receive correspondence indicating receipt by either Max or I, resend or send another message asking if received. Eugene Young - Editor (1 December 2012)
Eugene A. Young Editor- Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin Agriculture and Life Sciecnes Northern Oklahoma College 1220 E. Grand, PO Box 310 Tonkawa, Oklahoma 74653-0310 December 2012 Dear Winter Bird Count Participant, I hope you enjoy taking part in this year s KOS Winter Bird Count. The unpredictable weather, the possibility of discovering a new species for the count, the chance of finding unusual birds for Kansas, the fellowship and learning experience of birding with others, and the fun of being outdoors during the holiday season, all contribute to making the count a real adventure and one of the birding highlights of the year. As you probably know, the results of the count are published in the Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin. You might ask your count compiler to see a copy of last year s Winter Bird Count issue, to see how your count did relative to other counts in Kansas. Participants names are printed with the counts. Over half of the counts are not published in American Birds as part of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. If you would like to see the results of your efforts this year, please consider becoming a member of the Kansas Ornithological Society! Not only will you receive your own copy of the Winter Bird Count but also three other issues of the KOS Bulletin during the coming year. These document the sightings of unusual species submitted to the Kansas Bird Records Committee each year, studies of the biology of Kansas birds and other noteworthy sightings that I think you would find interesting. Articles are written by persons from a variety of backgrounds which include professional ornithologists, avid birdwatchers, and even the novice birdwatcher. The other benefits of KOS membership include receiving our quarterly newsletter, the Horned Lark, which includes tips on bird watching, observations on birds of interest during the spring and fall migrations, notification of upcoming birding opportunities, and a host of other informative articles on birds. You also receive information on registration for our spring meetings, which emphasize weekend-long field trips scattered around the state, and our fall meetings, which includes not only field trips but an interesting paper session and banquet as well. You can learn more by visiting our website: http://ksbirds.org/.
Please, fill out the application below and submit this page and your check to the KOS Treasurer directly. Sincerely, Have a great day of birding on the KOS Winter Bird Count! Gene Young Editor- KOS Bulletin KOS Membership Information KOS membership is available in the following categories: (circle one) Life Membership $300 or two annual payments of $150 Contributing $45 or more Sustaining Individual $30 Sustaining Family $35 Regular Individual $20 Regular Family $25 Student (grade school, high school or college) $5 Name_ Address City State Zip Phone Number E-mail address Fax Number Fill out this information and make check payable to the Kansas Ornithological Society. Mail this to the treasurer directly: Terry Mannell, Treasurer 218 Northridge Dr. Hays, KS 67601
Kansas Winter Bird Count December 9, 2012-January 13, 2013 Count name o N o W Center as described, (first year described in KOSBulletin). At Briefly describe center and, IF NEW, give detailed description. Dec ; Jan ; a.m. to p.m. Temp. o to o F. Wind Dir., Wind Speed mph. Snow inches. Use check box or circle appropriate words, others leave untouched. Still water: open frozen partly open Moving water: open frozen partly open AM: clear foggy light heavy rain snow Cloud cover: 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-95% overcast PM: clear foggy light heavy rain snow Cloud cover: 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-95% overcast (Use numerals in following spaces. Remember that hours at feeders and hours and miles owling are distinct and separate) OBSERVERS: in field in parties (non-owling), plus at feeders. TIME and DISTANCE: hours at feeders; hours and miles owling. Total party-hours and party-miles. hours and miles on foot, hours and miles by car, If possible. Please type. If not, please use legible printing. Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose (white form) (blue form) Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Scaled Quail Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant Greater Prairie-Chicken Lesser Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Common Loon Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Western Grebe Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron _ Egret _ Heron Bald Eagle (Total) Adults Immatures Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Accipiter sp. Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-tailed (Harlan s) Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Buteo sp. Golden Eagle Virginia Rail American Coot Sandhill Crane Killdeer Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Gull Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Dove Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker (Total) Unidentified Yellow-shafted Red-shafted Hybrid Pileated Woodpecker American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Falco sp. Eastern Phoebe Loggerhead Shrike Northern Shrike Blue Jay Western Scrub-Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow _ Raven Horned Lark Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Bushtit Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Bewick's Wren Winter Wren
Marsh Wren Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Sprague's Pipit Cedar Waxwing Lapland Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Smith's Longspur McCown's Longspur Longspur sp. Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler _ Warbler Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco (unident.) Slate-colored Junco Oregon Junco Pink-sided Junco Gray-headed Junco White-winged Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark meadowlark sp. Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird blackbird sp. Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow Any other birds not covered in the above list should be added at this point. Total Species Total Individuals Additional species seen in count circle during count week, but not on count day:
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Compiler: Telephone Number:_ E-mail: Please return by January 14, 2013 to: Max C. Thompson 1729 E. 11th Ave., Winfield, KS 67156 Email: maxt@cox.net If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at any time. E-mail: Eugene.Young@north-ok.edu or youngg6264@yahoo.com Phone: (580) 628-6482 (w), 620-660-0547 (c)