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Searching Hints
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Text contained within tables or charts is
not included in the search database, but can be searched within individual issues.
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Capitalization does
not matter.
• Hyphens and apostrophes
do matter.
Thus, a search for
Black-bellied Plover
(with hyphen) will return all instances of
Black-bellied Plover,
black-bellied plover, Black-Bellied Plover,
and BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, but will not
return any instances of
Black bellied Plover
(without the hyphen).
A search for
Western scrub jay
or
scrub jay
(no hyphen) will not return any instances of
Western scrub-jay
or
scrub-jay.
A search for
Wilsons warbler
(with no apostrophe) will not return
any instances of
Wilson's warbler.
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To be sure you get the most instances of a species, use only
a simple search term such as plover
or sandpiper.
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Also try searching on nicknames to pick up occurrences such
as "....We saw sooties and short taileds ...."
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Over 20 years of newsletters, style is not always consistent. Sometimes it's "shrub-steppe"; other times it's "shrubsteppe" or "shrub steppe. A search for "steppe" will return all instances. There are also the rare misspellings, for example, "Bickelton" rather than the correct "Bickleton."
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