Don't know why, I just feel like celebrating today! One thing I'd like to share in this spirit comes from BirdChat. This venerable mailing list, nowadays often dominated by self-serving posts, still is worth checking from time to time. For those interested in bird names, the non-AOU-affiliated (but still linked to by the AOU pages) "darwinpage" site that displays the older English and scientific names of North American birds has receded into obscurity. But a BirdChatter found a new URL for it: http://web.archive.org/web/20050212201145/http://members.aol.com/darwinpage/zoo/AOUmenu.htm courtesy of 'wayback machine,' a Web site that saves useful sites from oblivion; good for them. The darwinpage does contain some errors, so check out information you plan to publish, but it is still the most convenient source of this sort of information. Best of birds to all, and hope for the future, 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]