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Key Sources

Birding Guidebooks (Occurrence, Presence)

• H. L. Clark’s The Birds of Amherst &Vicinity, including nearly the whole of Hampshire County (1887), originally published in Amherst, Mass., by J. E. Williams and now also accessible via the HathiTrust.
• Ebenezer Emmons’s Birds of Massachusetts (1833), originally published in Dr. Edward Hitchcock’s “Report on the Geology, Minerology, Botany and Zoology of Massachusetts,” pp. 528-51.
• J. A. Allen’s “Catalogue of the Birds Found at Springfield, Mass., with Notes on their Migrations, Habits, & c., together with a list of those birds found in the State not yet observed at Springfield,” originally published in the Proceedings of the Essex Institute at Salem, Vol. IV, No. 2, September 1864, and now also accessible via the HathiTrust.

• Aaron Clark Bagg and Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr.’s Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts (1937), originally published in Northampton, Mass., by The Hampshire Bookshop and now also available through the HathiTrust.
• David Fischer’s “Annotated List of 234 Amherst Birds,” in Peter Westover’s Birds and Their Habitats in Amherst, Massachusetts with Complete Annotated List of Amherst Birds (1977), published by The Hitchcock Center for the Environment.

•  The Massachusetts Avian Records Committee State List
• Mass Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas 1 Species Accounts
• Wayne R. Petersen and Brian E. Small’s Field Guide to Birds of Massachusetts (2017), published by Scott & Nix, Inc.

Data on habitat and nest materials has been gathered from Audubon’s Field Guide to North American Birds and from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology,  as well as from the key sources of data for this site: e.g. Clark 1887 and 1906 and Bagg & Eliot 1937.

Historical Field Notes principally derive from H. L. Clark’s The Birds of Amherst &Vicinity, including nearly the whole of Hampshire County (1887) and Aaron Clark Bagg and Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr.’s Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts  (1937).

Bird Data (Body Mass)

Raw data on the masses of birds was found in Dunning, J.B. Body masses of North American birds (2018), edited by M. Ghadrdan. Eugene, OR: The IWRC. 

Global Conservation Status (2025)  

Conservation data on Dickinson’s birds in our century is readily available. Our primary source for this information is the IUCN Red List. In future, we plan to include regional conservation information. For the specific environmental threats to birds occurring in North America, The American Bird Conservancy site is an excellent resource.

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