Birds of Putnam County, Tennessee: Observers Contributing to Knowledge of Putnam County Birds

The list below includes the names of all observers who ever contributed in any way to the accumulation of bird data for Putnam County.  The list is surely incomplete, so if you notice any omissions or errors, please draw them to my attention.

    Persons whose names below are in bold-faced type and whose names are followed by initials are cited by their initials more than once in the species accounts.  Persons whose names are in bold-faced type without following initials are usually cited by their spelled out name a single time in the species accounts (or they are cited in relation to just one kind of record if their spelled out names appear more than once in the species accounts).  Persons whose names are in light-faced type without following initials are not cited in the species accounts, but they have contributed to knowledge of the county's birds in some other manner in the past.

    In the species accounts, some sets of letters appear to look like personal initials but are actually codes for types of group effort or are codes for other sources of bird data; these follow:

BBC—data resulting from Breeding Bird Census.

BBL—data derived from Bird Banding Laboratory records

BBS—data resulting from Breeding Bird Survey

BIO—specimen housed in the Biology Department at Tennessee Technological University.

CBC—data resulting from Christmas Bird Count.

FBC—data resulting from Fall Bird Count.

GBBC—data resulting from Great Backyard Bird Count.

SBC—data resulting from Spring Bird Count.

SRS—data resulting from Summer Roadside Survey.

WBPS—data resulting from Winter Bird Population Study.

WRS—data resulting from Winter Roadside Survey.

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