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Nebraska Bird Review 
1969 (FORTY-FOURTH) SPRING MIGRATION 
AND OCCURRENCE REPORT 
The accompaning tabulation lists 
two hundred sixty seven species, and 
one (see Douglas County) was not 
included in the tabulation. The count 
might be raised by one more if the 
Empidonax sp. reported were other 
than the two listed. Sixteen locali¬ 
ties are shown in the tabulation, but 
three of them represent just one or 
two-day observations. The 1968 re¬ 
port listed 274 species from sixteen 
localities, and the 1967 report 296 
species from eighteen localities. 
The symbols used in the tabula¬ 
tion are: 
in the heading: C for 
Cherry County, H for Hall County, 
and IC for Indian Cave State Park, 
near the Nemaha-Richardson County 
line. (Because these observations 
were for only a short period in each 
case, an X has been used instead 
of the date in the body of the tabula¬ 
tion.) 
in the body: Ja, Fe, Mr, Ap, 
My, and Je for the months; 
W - to indicate a species 
which was present before 
January 1; 
- S to indicate a species 
which remained after June 
30; 
P to indicate a species 
which is present all year, although 
the same individual birds may not 
be present during the whole year and 
the number of birds present may 
vary greatly during the year. 
Two dates indicate the first and 
last record for the area. The infor¬ 
mation is presented in a rough west 
(left column) to east (right column) 
order, with areas of about the same 
longitude presented in a north to 
south order. The names of the re¬ 
porters (afid of the observers where 
known) and any special comments 
are given below by the reporters’ 
counties in alphabetical order. The 
number of species is given in paren¬ 
thesis. In making this count “Em¬ 
pidonax sp.” is not counted if a 
specific species is also listed. 
Adams (134), Hastings; Mrs. 
Eldon Percival for the Brooking 
Bird Club. Kenesaw; Harold Turner. 
Because of Mr. Turner’s reduced ac¬ 
tivity in birding these two reports 
have been combined, after being re¬ 
ported separately for many years. 
Brown (107), Ainsworth. Mrs. 
Edith Hurlbut. 
Cass (63), Plattsmouth, Mrs. Paul 
Heineman and Mrs. Joseph Pluta 
(of Omaha), reporters; Lennart 
Berg, Emma Cappel, Gary Drown, 
Clyde and Emma Johnson, Bill 
Latka, Jr., Bill Latka III, Catherine 
Nelson, Jack Phillips, Doris Wallace, 
Gertrude Wood. Mrs. Schneider 
moved to Arizona, and the lack of 
her frequent observation trips is ap¬ 
parent in the short list. 
Cherry (66). Observations on May 
9, 10, and 11 by a class from Uni¬ 
versity of Nebraska at Omaha under 
Dr. Roger Sharpe. 
Custer (80), Merna; Mrs. Ray 
Kieborz. 
Dawes (99), Chadron and the 
south-central part of the county; 
Doris Gates and Mrs. W. A. Neeland. 
Douglas-Sarpy (179), Omaha and 
Bellevue; Mrs. Joseph Pluta, Carl 
Swanson, R. G. Cortelyou, reporters; 
Rose Anderson, Lennart Berg, Grov¬ 
er Brammel, Mr. and Mrs. Hal 
Chase, John A. Crawford, Mrs. E. 
O. Goodson, Rosemary Holeman, Dr, 
Larry Holcomb, Clyde and Emma 
Johnson, La Verne Reiser, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. G. Kritschmer, Bill Latka, 
Jr., Bill Latka III, Steve Latka, 
James Malkowski, Wanda Neader- 
hiser, Catherine Nelson, Mrs. S. A. 
Perkins, Jack Phillips, John Plank, 
Susan Quirk, Robert Sharpe, Dr. 
Roger Sharpe, Doris Wallace, Ever¬ 
ett Wilber. The Whooping Cranes 
were reported by Mr. Reiser, who 
