Contents
The Phalarope Conspiracy
Brooke Stevens
Bird Finding in Northern Berkshire County
Jan Ortiz, David A. Spector, and Pete Westover
Health Tips for Birders
Petti Staub
The Phalarope Conspiracy
Kathleen S. Anderson
Anatomical and Physiological Changes in Birds
Christopher Neill
Field Notes
Dan Furbish and Carolyn B. Marsh
Bird Sightings: March-april 2003
Seth Kellogg and Marjorie Rines
Thirty Years Ago (from Bird Observer Vol. 1, No. 4, 1973) How Do People Become Bird Watchers?
Eliot Taylor
About the Cover: Semipalmated Plover
William E. Davis Jr.
At a Glance
Wayne R. Petersen