The papers of Volume 33 of the BCFO journal have been archived and are now available to members and non-members alike. They can be downloaded from the Archived articles section of the British Columbia Birds web site.

Volume 34 of the BCFO journal is now available to members only and can be downloaded from the BCFO Member’s area of the British Columbia Birds web site.

The issue contains the following articles:

Rosenfield, R.N., A.C. Stewart, and W.E. Stout. 2023. Do wing moult and egg size in yearling female Cooper’s Hawks reveal age-dependent intrinsic liabilities when breeding? British Columbia Birds 34:2–8. (posted previously)

Town, S., R. Torrenta, and D. Bradley. 2023. Multiple nests found and chick development documented at the only known Black Swift (Cypseloides niger) nesting colony in coastal British Columbia. British Columbia Birds 34:9–18.

Gyug, L.W., J. Coleshill, M. Harrison, J. Hobbs, and T. Luszcz. 2023. Lewis’s Woodpecker breeding population size and trends in Grand Forks, British Columbia, after a severe flood event. British Columbia Birds 34:19–28.

Cooper, J.M. 2023. Probable cougar (Puma concolor) predation on a Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis). British Columbia Birds 34:29–31.

Matsuda, B.M., and C.J. Howe. 2023. Painted anemone consumption of a Pacific Wren on Vancouver Island. British Columbia Birds 34:32–33.

Bertrands, J. 2023. B.C. Field Ornithologists Bird Records Committee Report for 2022. British Columbia Birds 34:34–37.

Book Review — The Origin and Distribution of Birds in Coastal Alaska and British Columbia: The Lost Manuscript of Ornithologist Harry S. Swarth. British Columbia Birds 34:38–39.

The following In press paper is now available on the BCFO Member’s area of the British Columbia Birds web site:

Rosenfield, R.N., A.C. Stewart, and W.E. Stout. 2023. Do wing moult and egg size in yearling female Cooper’s Hawks reveal age-dependent intrinsic liabilities when breeding? British Columbia Birds 34:2–8.

Volume 33 of the BCFO journal is now available to members only and can be downloaded from the BCFO Member’s area of the British Columbia Birds web site.

The Special Issue on birds of the Fraser River Delta—Volume 32 of the BCFO journal—has been archived and is now available to members and non-members alike. it can be downloaded from the Archived articles section of the British Columbia Birds web site.

The following In press paper is now available on the BCFO Member’s area of the British Columbia Birds web site:

Helm, C. 2022. Inferred evidence of webbing in a possible Cretaceous avian track from northeastern British Columbia. British Columbia Birds 33:14–19.

The papers of Volume 31 of the BCFO journal have been archived and are now available to members and non-members alike. They can be downloaded from the Archived articles section of the British Columbia Birds web site.

The following In press paper is now available on the BCFO Member’s area of the British Columbia Birds web site:

Gaston, A.J., J.R. Towers, M. Mafter, S. Pastran, Y. Attia, and G. Curry. 2022. An unusual influx of Short-­tailed Shearwaters into nearshore waters of southern British Columbia in 2021.

Currently there is a proposal to The North American Classification Committee to consider re-splitting Northwestern Crow from American Crow. This proposal has garnered interest in a recent article by Robert W. Butler, published in British Columbia Birds, so we have decided to make the article generally available rather than having it confined to the Members Only pages of the British Columbia Birds website. You can download the paper here.