LIST OF PUBLICATIONS   (partial list; smaller commentaries and seasonal reports excluded)

Books

• 1993  Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Monterey County, California. As senior editor & author; co-editor Chris Tenney. 436 pp., Monterey Pen. Audubon Soc.
• 1985  Monterey Birds.  272 pp., color plates, Monterey Pen. Audubon Soc.
• 1980  Rare Birds of the West Coast.  534 pp., color plates, Woodcock Publ., Pac. Grove
• 1978  Birders' California. 108 pp., American Birding Ass'n.  Two printings.

Papers and articles

• 1998  Sulids Unmasked: which large booby reaches California. Field Notes 52: 276-287.
• 1997  Updates to the avifauna of Oaxaca, Mexico. Cotinga 7: 21-22. As senior author with Rita Carratello.
• 1996  Identifying Manx Shearwaters in the northeastern Pacific. Birding 28: 18-33.
•             First record of the Glaucous-winged Gull for Nebraska. Nebraska Bird Review 64: 3-4. As senior author with Rita Carratello. [text of article here]
•             A range extension of Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum plumbeiceps in Peru. Cotinga 6: 30-31.
• 1993 Fourteenth report of the California Bird Records Committee. W. Birds 24: 113-166, with corrigenda available from the author.
•             A note on hybrid white geese: a cautionary tale. Birding 30: 50-53.
•             Offshore boundaries: a clarification from the ABA Listing Rules Committee and Checklist Committee.  Winging It 5 (11): 8-9.
•  1992 First record of the Stejneger's Petrel in California. W. Birds 23: 145-152. As co-author with Guy McCaskie.
•  1991 Cookilaria petrels in the eastern Pacific Ocean: Identification and distribution. Part I: Am. Birds 45: 399-403. Part II: Am. Birds 45: 1067-1081; as senior author with Stephen F. Bailey.
•               The highest official state list?  Birding 23: 4-5.
•  1990   First record of the Sooty Tern in California. W. Birds  21: 25-32; as co-author with Richard E. Webster and Joseph Morlan.
•             North American bird records committees. Birding 22:276-285.
•  1989  News from the California Bird Records Committee. W. Birds 20: 269-271.
•             First record of the White-winged Crossbill in California. W. Birds 20: 81-87; as co-author with Phil Gordon and Joseph Morlan.
•             First record of the White-collared Swift in California. W. Birds 20: 25-31; as co-author with Richard A. Erickson and Joseph Morlan.
•             First record of the Common Black-Hawk in California. W. Birds 21: 11-18; as co-author with Brian E. Daniels, Loren & Debra Hays, and Joseph Morlan.
•             Point/Counterpoint: More on Pacific versus Arctic loons. Birding 21: 154-158.
•  1988  White-shielded coots in North America: a critical evaluation. Am. Birds 42: 1241-1246; as senior author with Luis F. Baptista.
•             First record of the Three-toed Woodpecker in California. W. Birds  19: 109-115; as co-author with John Trochet and Joseph Morlan.
•             First record of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater in California.W. Birds 19: 61-68; as co-author with Richard Stallcup and Joseph Morlan.
•             The ten most likely additions to the ABA checklist. Birding 20: 353-363.
•  1986   Ninth report of the California Bird Records Committee. W. Birds  17: 49-77.
•  1985   Distinctive bird names (letter to editor). Brit. Birds 78: 401-403.
•  1984   The changing seasons-spring '84 (summary of North America). Am. Birds 38: 877-882.
•               Identification quiz - Xantus' Murrelet. W. Birds 15: 43-44
•               Ruminations on reef herons and ships [letter to editor]. Birding 16: 16-20.
•               California wins! [not my title; letter to editor]. Birding 17: 102-106.
•  1983   Occurrence of Willow Warbler in North America refuted. Condor  85: 258; as senior author with Frank A. Pitelka.
•  1982   Introducing the new ABA birds. Birding 15: 116-130.
•               The changing seasons-summer '82 (summary of North America). Am. Birds 36: 948-953.
•  1977  A Streaked Shearwater in California. Am. Birds  31: 1097-1098; as senior author with Joseph Morlan and Arnold Small.
•             Death Valley days. W. Tanager, Aug 1977 issue.
•  1976  A Ringed Woodpecker Celeus torquatus in Colombia. Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 96: 40; as co-author with J. Van Remsen, Jr. and John S. Luther.
•  1975  California and Stallcup - the best of both in '74. Birding 7: 172-178.
•             500 in one state - a new landmark. Birding 7: 237-238.
•  1974  Call for stringent listing rules [letter to editor]. Birding 6: 82-84.

  Regional editor (landbirds) Middle Pacific Coast Region for Field Notes (previously known as Audubon Field Notes and American Birds)

Subregional editor, Monterey Co. of Middle Pacific Coast region. Field Notes (Am. Birds) 1983+
Regional Editor, Middle Pacific Coast region. Am. Birds 1983-1984.
Occasional columnist for Monterey Pen. Audubon Soc's newsletter, The Sanderling, 1980-present.
Regular monthly columnist (on observations) for Golden Gate Audubon Soc's newsletter, The Gull, 1974-1977.

Book and software reviews:

1993.  "Bird Brain 2.0." Birding 25: 280-283; as senior reviewer with Rita Carratello.
1991.  "Field guide to the Birds of Java and Bali." Birding 23: 48-50.
1982.  "Birds of Southern California." Birding 14: 152-155.

Photos featured:

1998.  Photo of juvenal Nazca Booby was cover photo of Field Notes, Vol. 52, No. 3.
1989.  Photo of Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel included in "ABA Members' Best", Birding  21: 92.
1984.  Photo of juvenal Pectoral Sandpiper was cover photo of Western Birds, Vol. 15, No. 1.
1984.  Photos of my record-setting Big Day team featured, incl. cover, in Birding  16: 69-70.