Western Birds is the quarterly Journal of Western Field Ornithologists, which promotes the study, appreciation, and protection of birds in western North America.

Western Birds solicits papers that contribute significantly to the scientific literature and that are useful and accessible to professional and amateur field ornithologists. The journal welcomes contributions from professional and amateur scientists alike. Appropriate topics include distribution, migration, status, identification, geographic variation, conservation, behavior, ecology, population dynamics, habitat requirements, the effects of pollution, and techniques for censusing, sound recording, and photographing birds in the field. Papers of general interest will be considered regardless of their geographic origin, but particularly desired are reports of studies done in or bearing on the Rocky Mountain and Pacific states and provinces, including Alaska and Hawai'i, western Texas, northwestern Mexico, and the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

Western Birds Editor

Philip Unitt
San Diego Natural History Museum
P.O. Box 121390
San Diego, CA 92112-1390
birds@sdnhm.org

Assistant Editor

Daniel D. Gibson
P.O. Box 155
Ester, Alaska 99725
avesalaska@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Kenneth P. Able
California

Kimball L. Garrett
California

Christopher W. Swarth
California

Matthew J. Baumann
New Mexico

Robert E. Gill Jr. 
Alaska

Ryan S. Terrill
Oregon

Daniel S. Cooper
California

Deborah J. House
California

Douglas W. Faulkner
Colorado

Daniel R. Ruthrauff
Alaska