As some readers know, I have written--and continue to update--a book-length work on the birds of Franklin and adjacent counties. I feel fairly confident I've consulted the many public resources from Franklin County, but am less than certain of my coverage of Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, Pickaway, and especially Union and Madison counties. The work is available, supported by Columbus Audubon, at http://columbusaudubon.org/resources/checklists-and-indexes-2/ . I would be delighted to have more help from others. If you can send me reliable new data on rarities or unusual dates or numbers I have missed in those six adjacent counties--or even Franklin--including data such as remarkable numbers, outlying dates, etc. I may have overlooked, I would be glad to include them. Thus far I have included--in an Appendix--18 other species in counties adjoining Franklin, where 241 more are already noted. I have excluded some rarity reports for lack of acceptable evidence (for example even some photos cited in publications cannot be located, such as one of an improbable roseate tern), but can look again if more information is offered. Any help you can offer will make this resource more helpful to others. Who knows? Some small local museum or library might have a local ivory-billed woodpecker specimen, or some reliable local naturalist, historian, or memoirist may have written up a swallow-tailed kite nest from the old days; please let me know of rare finds if you can back them up! Don't forget extra records of species already included---there's only one magnificent frigatebird for these seven counties--Ohio's first--for example...were there more? I look forward to hearing from birders and scholars, etc., and promise to assemble and report all the verified facts. Thanks, Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]