A couple of items of interest. Those who watched the PBS special on red knots and horseshoe crabs may be interested to learn the New Jersey Maritime Fisheries Commission just voted to lift a moratorium on take of horseshoe crabs. Federally, endangered species protection for the knot has not been possible because of reduced funding from the current administration. Story at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/15538077.html In the Good News category, a very informative list of mid-continental rare bird records is now on line, courtesy of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, at http://www.wsobirds.org/wso_midcontinent_birds_test6.html Thanks are due to Bob Domagalski for this compilation. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]