A Review of Birds of Washington (Wahl) and Supplement to Birds of Southeastern Washington

A review and critique of Birds of Washington: Status and Distribution edited by Terence R. Wahl, Bill Tweit and Steven G. Mlodinow. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. Weber places particular importance on specimen records and is critical of Wahl et als uneven citation of the literature on Washington's avifauna. The Supplement to Weber and Larrison's Birds of Southeastern Washington (1977) reports on fieldwork in the Blue Mountains and updates to the species accounts from 1977 to 1984. The valuable discussion of taxonomic issues includes a critique of Bell's 1996 paper on Glaucous-winged and Western Gulls. Included are reprints of five papers by Weber which originally appeared in Continental Birdlife and the Murrelet.109 pp.