Acknowledgements



Contributors and Special Assistance Atlasers	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project could not have been done without the help of many individuals. Special thanks to the people and organizations that offered their time, money, expertise, and support of this first Alabama Breeding Bird Atlas project. Contributors and Special Assistance University of North Alabama (UNA) for providing computer software and hardware used to produce and post the final atlas results and for providing two research grants to support travel for Paul Kittle. Lisa Keys-Mathews and Greg Gaston of UNA for their assistance in the use of Arcview GIS. Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (AL DCNR) and Ashley Peters for providing Arcview GIS shapefiles for river systems. Dagmar Thurmond of the United States Forest Service for point count data. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and contributors for eBird and Great Backyard Bird Count data. Keith Pardieck of Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and volunteers for Breeding Bird Survey data . Barbara Passmore and the Price-Campbell Foundation for a support grant to purchase topographic maps. AL DCNR for a Wildlife Grant to support Bert Harris's and Ben Garmon's atlasing efforts in final year. Board of Directors of Alabama Ornithological Society (AOS) for a support grant to cover initial printing expenses. Georgia Department of Natural Resources for use of computer program to maintain atlasing data. Kit West for computer program assistance. Chris Price, the AOS webmaster, for posting information and updates concerning the atlas project. Bill Summerour for use of his Swainson's Warbler photograph. Terry Hartley for use of his Northern Flicker photograph. Annabel Markle for use of her Northern Flicker drawing in the BBA logo. Alabama GAP and Amy Silvano for preliminary maps to help promote atlas project. Local Audubon Society chapters for providing forums for publicity, recruitment and data solicitation. The Nature Conservancy of Alabama for providing access to various properties. AL DCNR and Keith Hudson for providing atlas data from northern Alabama atlas project of 1994-1997 and Bald Eagle nesting data. AL DCNR Lands Division and Eric Soehren for providing rail data. AL DCNR Wildlife Division for assistance in obtaining Wild Turkey data. AL DCNR Wildlife Division and Cornell Laboratory for Ornithology for providing tapes of bird vocalizations for atlasers. AL DCNR, Keith Hudson and Ray Stroud for permitting Rick West to join the Bald Eagle census flights to search for heron and Osprey nests. Tennessee Valley Authority and Hill Henry for colonial nesting bird data for northern Alabama. Alabama Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Anne Miller for bird rehabilitation records. Dauphin Island Sealab Program and John Dindo for colonial nesting bird data for the Mobile Basin. 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