Annual Bird Reports

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Canberra Ornithologists Group has produced an ABN for every year since at least the late 1960s as an issue of CBN.

 

Here is a schedule of the refs for the 21 years that coincided with my book on COG's Garden Bird Survey over those years, although this bit mainly refers to the GBS component of the ABR with statistics about it (deleted here as it is too difficult to format all that stuff out again). This is Appendix 7 of the book Sorry the table has lost its formatting! :

 

Appendix 7. Reference list of COG Annual Bird Reports (ABR).
COG has produced ABR since the late 1960s. This list only includes those that have appeared since the beginning of the GBS. In some cases an entry in this report, like a species noted at a particular site on a certain year will also be mentioned in the relevant ABR. The reader would need to refer to Appendix 3 to interpret the site number to a name and suburb. The ABR contain details of most of the rarer species listed in Appendix 1 and additional data. The COG ABR are not referred to individually in this report. The authorship of the ABR, always a group effort, has varied over the years, so they are listed here in brief form as a chronological set, with the volume number and pages in Canberra Bird Notes (CBN) as the reference and the release date. This also indicates, where available, the number of species then stated to have been recorded in the GBS (although note that waterbirds were not included in the early years), also sites and observer-weeks included in the analysis at that time. These can be compared to the updated information in Table 1. (NYA = Not yet available, NG = Not Given in ABR, Supp = Supplement.)
 

Year     GBS year CBN Reference, volume: pages       Release date (approximate) 
1981?82     1         8: 2?52                                     January 1983 

1982?83     2         9: 50?139                                 July 1984 
1983?84     3         10: 26?85                                 April 1985 
1984?85     4         11: 26?88                                 June 1986 
1985?86     5         12: 30?83                                 June 1987 
1986?87     6         13: 54?102                               September 1988 
1987?88     7         14: 37?88                                 September 1989 
1988?89     8         15: 69?122                               December 1990 
1989?90     9         17: 17?71                                 June 1992 
1990?91     10        18: 53?106                               December 1993 
1991?92     11         21: 69?124                              December 1996 
1992?93     12         22: 1?54 (Supp)                       December 1997 
1993?94     13         23: 1?50 (Supp)                       October 1998 
1994?95     14         23: 51?95 (Supp)                     October 1998 
1995?96     15         24: 49?98                                 June 1999 
1996?97     16         24: 99?142                               June 1999 
1997?98     17         24: 193?248                             December 1999 
1998?99     18         25: 127?184                             April 2001 
1999?00     19         26: 105?199                             April 2002  
2000?01     20         26: 105?199                              April 2002  
2001?02     21         27: 145-202                              December 2002