[mou] Minnesota birds, scientific articles

[Jim Williams]

There is no single publication one can use to keep track of 
ornithological research done in Minnesota. Papers stemming from such 
work are published in myriad journals. Google now offers something of a 
solution (for this and any other scientifically based search you might 
want to make). Go to http://scholar.google.com/ and enter your search 
words. My request for scientific papers containing the words 
Minnesota+bird resulted in 7,100 listings. Not all of the work brought 
to the screen is bird related. Some research is Bird related; there is 
an impressive number of researchers named Bird doing work in Minnesota, 
on hearts and dogs and other subjects.

This Google address is a new and most useful source for scientific 
documents, however, and scrolling through the research done by 
Minnesotans or involving Minnesota birds is both impressive and 
entertaining.

Up front on the list I retrieved were several papers discussing 
research done as the wind-generation towers were being planned and 
erected in southwestern Minnesota. This is a particularly interesting 
subject.

Jim Williams
Wayzata, Minnesota