ILLINOIS AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Number 176 Spring 1976 
CONTENTS 
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Peter Dring iy 
MORE CHANGES IN COMMON BIRD NAMES _ Peter C. Petersen 3 
A QUESTION OF MORALITY William Brey 
THE EFFECTS OF CHANNELIZATION ON FISH POPULATIONS 
Mike Conlin 9 
SCHOOL CHILDREN AID TO EAGLES NETS $50,000; 
REFUGE NAME SELECTED Fred Tetreault & John Warren 12 
ARE YOU REALLY A FRIEND TO WILDLIFE? John Warren 17 
THE 1.A.S. 1975 CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT Kathleen Struthers 19 
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER IN ILLINOIS 
H. David Bohlen 27 
FIELD NOTES, FALL MIGRATION Vernon M. Kleen 28 
BOOK REVIEWS: ay 
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, A PERSONAL SELECTION By Eliot Porter 
A.B.A. CHECKLIST: Birds of Continental United States and Canada By 
A.B.A. Checklist Committee, Chandler S. Robbins, Chairman 
THE LIFE AND LORE OF THE BIRD By Edward A. Armstrong 
NATURAL RESOURCES AND PUBLIC RELATIONS By Douglas L. Gilbert 
INFORMATION BRIEFS FROM ERDA 38 
BIRD FINDING — Rend Lake Bruce Peterjohn 39 
UNCOMING EVENTS 
June 1-30 Breeding Bird Surveys 
June 12-20 Mid-June Birding Challenge 
FRONT COVER: Snowy Owl on roof top in downtown Red Bud, 
Randolph County, Mar. 10, 1976. — Photo by Olin Kettlekamp, 
North County News 
