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Index of General Articles
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| 2021 Big Day for Birds! | Issue: 352 | Page: 80 |
| 3857 Raptors and SO MUCH MORE! | Issue: 031 | Page: 12 |
| Abundance and Timing of Raptors During Spring Migration at Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1969 to 2016 | Issue: 304 | Page: 188 |
| Adventures of George Sutton, The | Issue: 134 | Page: 166 |
| Almost Stilted Over a Reclusive Stilt | Issue: 062 | Page: 66 |
| Annotated List of Cumberland County Birds | Issue: 303 | Page: 138 |
| Answer to Photo Quiz #13 | Issue: 203 | Page: 123 |
| Answer to Photo Quiz #29 | Issue: 244 | Page: 186 |
| Answer to Photo- Quiz #14 | Issue: 204 | Page: 176 |
| Appalachian Spring | Issue: 052 | Page: 58 |
| Applied Ecology | Issue: 012 | Page: 37 |
| Atlasing Along RoaringRun, Lycoming County | Issue: 022 | Page: 54 |
| Autumn Rain | Issue: 044 | Page: 134 |
| Autumn Raptor Migration Summary 2006 | Issue: 204 | Page: 177 |
| Avian Conservation Plan for the Slippery Creek Watershed | Issue: 283 | Page: 148 |
| Big Day for Birds! | Issue: 363 | Page: 164 |
| Big Ma Ma | Issue: 021 | Page: 9 |
| Bird Banding at Presque Isle State Park | Issue: 121 | Page: 7 |
| Bird Misidentification | Issue: 141 | Page: 15 |
| Bird-Kite Encounters | Issue: 094 | Page: 194 |
| Birding can be a Dirty Business | Issue: 092 | Page: 64 |
| Birding Ethics | Issue: 063 | Page: 100 |
| Birding in PA Goes Electronic | Issue: 132 | Page: 82 |
| Birding in Wayne County | Issue: 013 | Page: 74 |
| Blue Jays and Russian Roulette | Issue: 053 | Page: 116 |
| Bounty Law, The | Issue: 031 | Page: 13 |
| Breeding Bird Survey - Fifty 3-minute counts at one location | Issue: 102 | Page: 46 |
| Brush Mountain Notebook | Issue: 023 | Page: 90 |
| Call the Answer Man! | Issue: 023 | Page: 94 |
| Can You Hear Blue-winged Warblers? | Issue: 053 | Page: 114 |
| Changes in Breeding Birds in Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania 1959-2003 | Issue: 182 | Page: 70 |
| Changes in Pennsylvania's Breeding Birds Since the First Atlas, According to the Breeding Bird Survey | Issue: 203 | Page: 118 |
| Changes in Pennsylvania's Breeding Birds Since the First Atlas, According to the Breeding Bird Survey (Addendum) | Issue: 204 | Page: 192 |
| Checklist of the Birds of Delaware County | Issue: 263 | Page: 140 |
| Chumming for Longspurs | Issue: 044 | Page: 137 |
| Clarification, A | Issue: 094 | Page: 192 |
| Clunky-shaped Bird, The | Issue: 112 | Page: 58 |
| Conejohela Flats - Habitat in Danger | Issue: 083 | Page: 145 |
| Cowbird Dilemma, The | Issue: 064 | Page: 147 |
| Day on Dutch Mountain, A | Issue: 011 | Page: 3 |
| Digiscoping: Adding a New Dimension to Birding | Issue: 173 | Page: 184 |
| Dinner for Two | Issue: 034 | Page: 134 |
| Documenting Rare Birds in Pa. - Part 1 | Issue: 082 | Page: 63 |
| Dream Birding | Issue: 024 | Page: 125 |
| Duck Stamps | Issue: 101 | Page: 12 |
| Effects of Climate Change on Bird Migration in Erie County | Issue: 332 | Page: 83 |
| End of a Free Lunch | Issue: 032 | Page: 51 |
| Evidence for West Nile Virus-Related Avian Declines in Pennsylvania | Issue: 331 | Page: 2 |
| Evolution of a "Bird Pest" | Issue: 064 | Page: 148 |
| Examining the Christmas Bird Count in Pennsylvania, 1900-1995 | Issue: 112 | Page: 50 |
| Falcon wanderings: Daily Movements of Five Juvenile Peregrine Falcons | Issue: 183 | Page: 168 |
| Field Guide to Non-birds, A | Issue: 063 | Page: 107 |
| Fifty years of shorebirds at Shenango Reservoir, Mercer County, 1965-2015 | Issue: 293 | Page: 146 |
| First Sandhill Crane Sighting in Centre County | Issue: 112 | Page: 61 |
| Flame Crests of Winter | Issue: 041 | Page: 4 |
| Flycatcher in the Honeysuckle Bush, The | Issue: 114 | Page: 222 |
| Freeze! | Issue: 044 | Page: 145 |
| Frogs at the Knob | Issue: 014 | Page: 113 |
| Future Breeders in Pa.? | Issue: 083 | Page: 138 |
| Future Breeders in Pa.? More Guesses | Issue: 084 | Page: 208 |
| Geobirding: Filling in the Data Gaps | Issue: 364 | Page: 204 |
| Great Avian Depression II | Issue: 342 | Page: 72 |
| Great Avian Depression, The | Issue: 102 | Page: 61 |
| Great Milton Crow War, The | Issue: 024 | Page: 123 |
| Gypsy Moth Predators | Issue: 033 | Page: 95 |
| Habitat restoration for the federally endangered Great Lakes Piping Plover at Presque Isle State Park, Erie County, Pennsylvania | Issue: 281 | Page: 2 |
| Hawk at Play, A | Issue: 043 | Page: 96 |
| Hawk Mountain Petrel": First Pennsylvania Record, but Which Species?, The " | Issue: 111 | Page: 2 |
| Help Wanted: Volunteers for Wildlife Bird Projects | Issue: 054 | Page: 161 |
| Here's the B's | Issue: 012 | Page: 34 |
| Home Hawkwatching and Much More: Quarantine Spring Birding | Issue: 342 | Page: 74 |
| How Many Birds Come to Your Feeder? | Issue: 074 | Page: 125 |
| Hurricane Fran's Fallout | Issue: 103 | Page: 138 |
| Hurricane Isabel's Birds with notes on previous tropical storms and storm related birds | Issue: 174 | Page: 246 |
| Hurricane Sandy in Pennsylvania: 29-31 October 2012 | Issue: 264 | Page: 204 |
| Impacts of Water Level Flucuation for Fishery Management on Waterfowl Usage and Brood Production | Issue: 071 | Page: 7 |
| Insights from 80 Years of Warren, PA, Christmas Bird Counts | Issue: 372 | Page: 83 |
| Inventory Program for Birds at Pennsylvania National Parks | Issue: 172 | Page: 70 |
| It's Called a What? | Issue: 063 | Page: 109 |
| Jack Sprat Syndrome, The | Issue: 043 | Page: 90 |
| January | Issue: 061 | Page: 14 |
| Joys of Atlasing, The | Issue: 021 | Page: 5 |
| Keeping Records | Issue: 024 | Page: 133 |
| Keeping Records | Issue: 031 | Page: 10 |
| Keeping Track | Issue: 051 | Page: 4 |
| Killer Frog, The | Issue: 351 | Page: 17 |
| Landowner -- Best Source of Information, The | Issue: 021 | Page: 6 |
| Less than Lesser Goldfinch, The | Issue: 074 | Page: 129 |
| Leucism - White or "Washed-Out"? | Issue: 254 | Page: 188 |
| List of the birds of Washington County | Issue: 253 | Page: 157 |
| Looking for Gulls in Berks County | Issue: 061 | Page: 12 |
| Magical day at Bald Knob, A | Issue: 194 | Page: 190 |
| Marsh Monitoring Program Needs You | Issue: 084 | Page: 220 |
| Mifflin County Eagles | Issue: 034 | Page: 131 |
| Migrant Numbers may not be What They Seem | Issue: 074 | Page: 131 |
| Miracle at Imperial | Issue: 084 | Page: 207 |
| Modeling the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Summer Distributions of Pennsylvania's Nongame Birds | Issue: 173 | Page: 179 |
| Mother of All Bird Alerts: A Cautionary "Tail", The | Issue: 052 | Page: 65 |
| Mr. Floyd and Mr. Franklin | Issue: 043 | Page: 91 |
| Murder at the Feeder? | Issue: 072 | Page: 54 |
| My Listening Point | Issue: 031 | Page: 11 |
| My Silent Fall | Issue: 043 | Page: 96 |
| Neotropical Migrants in Pa. | Issue: 081 | Page: 2 |
| Neotropical Migrants in Pennsylvania, Evidence of Absence or Absence of evidence? | Issue: 084 | Page: 201 |
| New Craze: A Hawkwatching Party, A | Issue: 034 | Page: 129 |
| Note on the Spring Passage, A | Issue: 092 | Page: 77 |
| Notes form the Route 183 Lookout | Issue: 034 | Page: 131 |
| Notes on 20 Years of Breeding Bird Surveys in Rothrock State Forest | Issue: 253 | Page: 146 |
| October's Birds | Issue: 033 | Page: 94 |
| Official List of the Birds of Pennsylvania | Issue: 204 | Page: 184 |
| Old Days": Or, How I Learned to Love the Spruce Budworm, The " | Issue: 093 | Page: 124 |
| Our Friend, Jesse | Issue: 072 | Page: 48 |
| Our Work Must Continue! | Issue: 041 | Page: 9 |
| Owls of the Pennsylvania CBCs | Issue: 044 | Page: 130 |
| P.O.R.C. Nominations Sought | Issue: 074 | Page: 130 |
| Pa.'s Species of Special Concern Update | Issue: 074 | Page: 126 |
| Participating in the Grassland Bird Survey | Issue: 131 | Page: 17 |
| Patterns and Probability of Detecting Pennsylvania's Birds of Note | Issue: 342 | Page: 66 |
| Pennsylvania Bird Clubs - Concocoheague Audubon Society and The Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon Society | Issue: 171 | Page: 37 |
| Pennsylvania Bird Clubs- Birding Club of Delaware County and the Presque Isle Audubon Society | Issue: 173 | Page: 183 |
| Pennsylvania Bird Foray, Susquehannock State Forest, Potter County, 11-12 June 1999 | Issue: 132 | Page: 81 |
| Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas | Issue: 011 | Page: 2 |
| Pennsylvania Breeding Birds of Special Concern | Issue: 091 | Page: 6 |
| Pennsylvania Needs | Issue: 021 | Page: 4 |
| Pennsylvania Rare Bird Alerts | Issue: 052 | Page: 64 |
| Pennsylvania Rehabilitators | Issue: 014 | Page: 112 |
| Pennsylvania Species of Special Concern | Issue: 052 | Page: 63 |
| Pennsylvania's "Breeding" Season | Issue: 162 | Page: 83 |
| Pennsylvania's Piscivorous Birds | Issue: 091 | Page: 11 |
| Peregrine Falcon --Unable to Fly, A | Issue: 014 | Page: 111 |
| Photo Quiz #1 Answer | Issue: 173 | Page: 231 |
| Photo Quiz #11 Answer | Issue: 201 | Page: 34 |
| Photo Quiz #12 Answer | Issue: 202 | Page: 65 |
| Photo Quiz #15 Answer | Issue: 211 | Page: 70 |
| Photo Quiz #16 - Inside back cover | Issue: 211 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo Quiz #16 Answer | Issue: 212 | Page: 75 |
| Photo Quiz #17 | Issue: 212 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo Quiz #4 Answer | Issue: 182 | Page: 71 |
| Photo Quiz #5 | Issue: 182 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo Quiz #5 Answer | Issue: 183 | Page: 176 |
| Photo Quiz #6 Answer | Issue: 184 | Page: 231 |
| Photo Quiz #7 Answer | Issue: 191 | Page: 10 |
| Photo Quiz #8 Answer | Issue: 192 | Page: 112 |
| Photo Quiz #9 Answer | Issue: 193 | Page: 160 |
| Photo-Quiz #10 | Issue: 193 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #10 Answer | Issue: 194 | Page: 191 |
| Photo-Quiz #11 | Issue: 194 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #12 | Issue: 201 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #13 | Issue: 202 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #14 | Issue: 203 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #15 | Issue: 204 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #17 Answer | Issue: 213 | Page: 132 |
| Photo-Quiz #18 | Issue: 213 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #18 Answer | Issue: 214 | Page: 220 |
| Photo-Quiz #19 | Issue: 214 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #19 Answer | Issue: 221 | Page: 83 |
| Photo-Quiz #2 | Issue: 173 | Page: 244 |
| Photo-Quiz #20 | Issue: 221 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #20 Answer | Issue: 222 | Page: 99 |
| Photo-Quiz #21 | Issue: 222 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #21 Answer | Issue: 223 | Page: 192 |
| Photo-Quiz #22 | Issue: 223 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #22 Answer | Issue: 224 | Page: 220 |
| Photo-Quiz #23 | Issue: 224 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #23 Answer | Issue: 231 | Page: 47 |
| Photo-Quiz #24 | Issue: 231 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #26 Answer | Issue: 234 | Page: 209 |
| Photo-Quiz #27 | Issue: 234 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #27 Answer | Issue: 241 | Page: 35 |
| Photo-Quiz #28 | Issue: 241 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #28 Answer | Issue: 242 | Page: 84 |
| Photo-Quiz #29 | Issue: 243 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #3 | Issue: 174 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #30 | Issue: 251 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #4 | Issue: 181 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #6 | Issue: 183 | Page: inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #7 | Issue: 184 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #8 | Issue: 191 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Photo-Quiz #9 | Issue: 192 | Page: Inside back cover |
| Pittsburgh's Winter of Gulls | Issue: 211 | Page: 21 |
| Poplar Forest | Issue: 142 | Page: 100 |
| Population Trends of Pa.'s Nesting Birds | Issue: 082 | Page: 66 |
| Potential Problems with Neck Bands and Leg Bands | Issue: 074 | Page: 122 |
| Predictions for the Next Ten New Species to be found in Pennsylvania | Issue: 344 | Page: 196 |
| Project FeederWatch in Pennsylvania | Issue: 042 | Page: 42 |
| Rare Birds Summary for 1994 | Issue: 091 | Page: 23 |
| Recycled Nest, The | Issue: 042 | Page: 49 |
| Red-necked Grebe Invasion 2003 | Issue: 172 | Page: 111 |
| Remembrance of Christmas Bird Count Past | Issue: 034 | Page: 128 |
| Reporting Neck-collared Swans and Geese | Issue: 104 | Page: 231 |
| Restored Wetlands as Management Tools for Wetland-Dependent Birds | Issue: 071 | Page: 4 |
| Results from Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas 1 and 2: Species showing likely population declines | Issue: 363 | Page: 152 |
| Results of 2020 Pennsylvania Game Commission Marsh Bird Surveys with Comparisons to BBA Results | Issue: 372 | Page: 89 |
| Results Since Pennsylvania's First Breeding Bird Atlas: State's First Confirmed Breeding Reports | Issue: 371 | Page: 13 |
| Retiring a Bird Patch | Issue: 354 | Page: 222 |
| Ruddy Turnbark and a Ruddy Rototiller, A | Issue: 083 | Page: 144 |
| Season of the Shrike, The | Issue: 094 | Page: 189 |
| Second Year - Hawk Watch at Militia Hill, The | Issue: 034 | Page: 130 |
| Serendipitous Birding or Lucky Chasing | Issue: 191 | Page: 30 |
| Siskin Invasion | Issue: 024 | Page: 126 |
| Six-Thirty Bird, The | Issue: 032 | Page: 52 |
| Some Northern Butler County Field Notes | Issue: 142 | Page: 110 |
| Sparrow Fields, The | Issue: 103 | Page: 145 |
| Spring Migration at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, 1969-1998 | Issue: 131 | Page: 11 |
| Storm Birds on the Lower Susquehanna | Issue: 042 | Page: 47 |
| Summary of Wintering Hummingbirds in Pennsylvania | Issue: 311 | Page: 12 |
| Surfing a Warbler Wave - Northampton County Big Day - 1996 | Issue: 102 | Page: 59 |
| Temporal Field Guide to Autumn Raptor Migration at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania, A | Issue: 103 | Page: 134 |
| The Breeding Bird Survey in Pennsylvania - History, Importance, and Results | Issue: 353 | Page: 151 |
| Thoughts on the Modern Approach to Field Identification of Dowitchers | Issue: 203 | Page: 124 |
| Thrush Migration Pattern over Southwestern Pennsylvania, A | Issue: 113 | Page: 144 |
| Try Your Best Guess! | Issue: 031 | Page: 14 |
| Turnstone is a Turnstone is a ... Turnstile??, A | Issue: 064 | Page: 147 |
| Two Local Bird Record Collections Transferred | Issue: 202 | Page: 66 |
| Unusual Birds in Allegheny County | Issue: 252 | Page: 79 |
| Unusual Field Sparrow Nest, An | Issue: 031 | Page: 13 |
| Update on the Conejohela Flats | Issue: 112 | Page: 61 |
| Updates to the Annotated List of Birds of the Imperial Grasslands, Allegheny County | Issue: 261 | Page: 24 |
| Veery in North Park, The | Issue: 031 | Page: 13 |
| Veteran and the Neophyte, The | Issue: 092 | Page: 63 |
| Wanderings - The "Red-eyed Birding Tour" | Issue: 171 | Page: 38 |
| Warblers at the Bubbler | Issue: 052 | Page: 65 |
| Waterfowl Watcher Alert! Neck-collared Geese and Swans Being Sighted | Issue: 021 | Page: 8 |
| Weather and the Distribution of Birds | Issue: 101 | Page: 2 |
| Week of Waterfowl on the Susquehanna, A | Issue: 072 | Page: 55 |
| Western Hummingbirds in Pennsylvania - the Invasion of 2012 | Issue: 264 | Page: 182 |
| What to do about Rare Bird Sightings? | Issue: 014 | Page: 103 |
| What?...How's that Again? | Issue: 024 | Page: 124 |
| When Mountain Birding Becomes More Than Birds | Issue: 073 | Page: 94 |
| Where are the Birds? Where is the Atlas? A Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas Update | Issue: 044 | Page: 136 |
| Where do birds get fat? A new application of stable isotope analysis on fat stores in migrating songbirds | Issue: 361 | Page: 15 |
| Where do birds get fat? A new application of stable isotope analysis on fat stores in migrating songbirds | Issue: 362 | Page: 88 |
| Where Is That Bird Anyway? | Issue: 304 | Page: 206 |
| Where the Bird Flies… The Reason for Different Counting Protocols | Issue: 304 | Page: 207 |
| Where Were We?? | Issue: 034 | Page: 134 |
| Where West Nile Virus Has Affected Pennsylvania's Birds and What This Portends for the State's Third Breeding Bird Atlas | Issue: 371 | Page: 17 |
| White-tailed Deer Alter Diversity of Songbirds And Their Habitat in Northwestern Pennsylvania | Issue: 102 | Page: 55 |
| Winter of the Goose in Berks County, The | Issue: 111 | Page: 6 |
| Woodcock Observations | Issue: 072 | Page: 54 |
| Woodpecker Woods | Issue: 051 | Page: 6 |
| Year at the Lake, The | Issue: 271 | Page: 20 |
| Year of the Eagles - Militia Hill Hawk Watch | Issue: 054 | Page: 189 |