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THE PASSENGER PIGEON, WSO’s flagship publication, is a quarterly journal featuring a wide range of articles on Wisconsin birds, seasonal field sightings, and scientific research reports.

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Member-Only Issues
2022 Spring-Summer (vol. 84, no. 1-2)	President’s Message: Progress and Accomplishments First Description of a Whooping Crane Flying Over Lake Michigan Comparisons of Earliest Spring Sightings of Migratory Birds in Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1945–1959 and 2006–2020 Population Changes and Conservation Challenges in Midwestern Swallows 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon Spring 2021 Seasonal Report WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2021 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Summer Season: 2021 WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2021 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists
2021 Winter (vol. 83, no. 4)	President’s Statement : New President’s Introduction From the Editor’s Desk: Give into Wanderlust and Help Local Birds Project SOAR (Snowy Owl Airport Rescue): Protecting Snowy Owls, Raptors, and Airport Travelers Satellite Tracking Decorah, Iowa Fledgling Bald Eagles, 2011–2018 40 Years Change in Breeding Birds at a Southern Wisconsin Marsh 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Winter Season: 2020–2021 WSO Records Committee Report: Winter 2020-21 2020 Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Annual Report About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists
2021 Summer-Fall (vol. 83, no. 2-3)	President’s Statement From the Editors’ Desk: Doing More for Birds Through Volunteerism Code Wisconsin’s First Documented Nesting of a Mountain Bluebird-Eastern Bluebird Hybrid Pair Status & Trend of the Connecticut Warbler in Wisconsin: Steep Decline Demands Urgent Conservation Action 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon Summer Season: 2020 Seasonal Report WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2020 Fall Season: 2020 Seasonal Report WSO Records Committee Report: Fall 2020 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists
2021 Spring (vol. 83, no. 1)	President’s Statement From the Editors’ Desk: Binocular Code Spring Migration 2020: A Visual Journal of Warbler Sightings The History, Ecology, and Management of Giant Canada Geese (Branta canadensis maxima) in Wisconsin 50 Years Ago, in The Passenger Pigeon Spring 2020 Seasonal Report WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2020 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists
2020 Fall-Winter (vol. 82, no. 3-4)	President’s Statement From the Editors’ Desk: Funding the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program Developing a Citizen Science Protocol to Monitor Common Nighthawks (Chordeiles minor) in Southeastern Wisconsin 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Fall Season: 2019 WSO Records Committee Report: Fall 2019 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Winter Season: 2019-2020 WSO Records Committee Report: Winter 2019-2020 Wisconsin Society for Ornithology 2020 Annual Report Announcement of the 2020 Passenger Pigeon Awards Guidelines for Authors and Artists About the Artists Notes and Announcements
2020 Summer (vol. 82, no. 2)	President’s Statement From the Editors’ Desk: Nature and Art 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon Wisconsin Chapter of the Wildlife Society - 2020 Winter Meeting The Summer Season: 2019 By the Wayside: Summer 2019 WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2019 Guidelines for Authors and Artists About the Artists Notes and Announcements
2020 Spring (vol. 82, no. 1)	Incoming President’s Message Outgoing President’s Message From the Editors’ Desk: Changing the World through Local Conservation 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon Winter Waterfowl Abundance and Distribution in the Milwaukee Estuary and Harbor The Spring Season: 2019 WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2019 Errata About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2019 Winter (vol. 81, no. 4)	WSO Bylaws From the Editors’ Desk: It's All About the Birders 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon Wisconsin’s Red Crossbill Irruption of 2017–18: Distribution, Abundance, and Breeding Behaviors of Multiple Call Types Learning to Think Like a Bluebird: A 17-Season, Citizen Science Study of the Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis, and Other Cavity Nesting Songbirds The Winter Season: 2018-2019 WSO Records Committee Report: Winter 2018-2019 2019 WSO Annual Convention Awards Minutes of the 2019 WSO Annual Meeting 2019 Annual Report: The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, Inc. About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Index for Volume 81 Notes and Announcements
2019 Summer-Fall (vol. 81, no. 2-3)	President’s Statement: Atlas Field Work Completed From the Editors’ Desk: WSO Welcomes a Familiar Face to a New Role Assessing the Breeding Status and Breeding Habitat of the Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) on a Managed Nature Sanctuary in Southeastern Wisconsin 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Summer Season: 2018 WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2018 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Fall Season: 2018 WSO Records Committee Report: Fall 2018 Guidelines for Authors and Artists About the Artists Notes and Announcements

Publicly Accessible Issues
2019 Spring (vol. 81, no. 1)	President’s Statement: 80 Years of The Passenger Pigeon From the Editors’ Desk: Time of Transition To Breed or Not to Breed: Potential Nesting Attempt by American Three-Toed Woodpeckers in Northern Wisconsin A Tribute to the Late Jim Harris 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Spring Season: 2018 WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2018 In Memoriam: Neil A. Harriman Guidelines for Authors and Artists About the Artists Notes and Announcements
2018 Winter (vol. 80, no. 4)	Leopold, Muir and Derleth, Oh My From the Editors’ Desk: Gratitude! 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Winter Season: 2017–2018 WSO Records Committee Report: Winter 2017–18 “By the Wayside”—Winter 2017–2018 2017 Wisconsin Christmas Bird Count The 2018 WSO Annual Convention Awards Minutes of the 2018 Annual Meeting 2018 Annual Report Errata About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Index for Volume 80 Notes and Announcements
2018 Fall (vol. 80, no. 3)	Incoming WSO President’s Statement: Greetings! Outgoing President’s Statement: Keeping Engaged in a Trying Time From the Editors’ Desk: What About Cats? Prothonotary Warbler Artificial Nest Box Productivity in a Northern Illinois Floodplain Forest (Peer-Reviewed) Fall and Winter-Hardy Hummingbirds The Fall Season: 2017 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon “By the Wayside”—Fall 2017 WSO Records Committee Report: Fall 2017 About the Artists Revised Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2018 Summer (vol. 80, no. 2)	President’s Statement: Keeping Engaged in a Trying Time 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Summer Season: 2017 “By the Wayside”—Summer 2017 WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2017 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2018 Spring (vol. 80, no. 1)	President’s Statement: Distracted by a Bird From the Editors’ Desk: Bird Photography Documenting Birds 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Spring Season: 2017 WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2017 “By the Wayside”—Spring 2017 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2017 Winter (vol. 79, no. 4)	President’s Column: The Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative at 15 Years From the Editors’ Desk: The Attack on Evidence Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II: 2015–2017 Prelimiary Results and a Plea for Your Help 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Winter Season: 2016–2017 WSO Records Committee Report: Winter 2016–17 “By the Wayside”—Winter 2016–17 2017 Annual Meeting Wisconsin Society for Ornithology 2017 WSO Convention Awards 2016 Wisconsin Christmas Bird Count About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists (Revised) Index Notes and Announcements
2017 Fall (vol. 79, no. 3)	WSO’s Buena Vista Properties and Prairie Chicken Management Thoughts on Banding Chickadees in Wisconsin 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Fall Season: 2016 “By the Wayside”—Fall 2016 WSO Records Committee Report: Fall 2016 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2017 Summer (vol. 79, no. 2)	President’s Statement: Combining Winter Birding with Citizen Science From the Editors’ Desk: On Uniformity Bird Use of the Cedarburg Bog Important Bird Area during Spring and Fall Migration Piping Plovers Breeding in Brown County, Wisconsin, in 2016: Encouraging Signs of Population Expansion 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Summer Season: 2016 “By the Wayside”—Summer 2016 WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2016 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2017 Spring (vol. 79, no. 1)	President’s Statement: Searching for Gems in the Library Basement From the Editors’ Desk: Big Money vs. Nature Nest Site and Post-Fledging Habitat Associations of Acadian Flycatchers, Empidonax virescens in the Baraboo Hills First Record of Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) for Wisconsin The Spring Season: 2016 Aldo Leopold’s “On a Monument to the Pigeon”: A Lesson in Biotic Empathy 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon “By the Wayside”—Spring 2016 WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2016 In Memoriam: Daniel D. Berger About the Artists Notes and Announcements
2016 Winter (vol. 78, no. 4)	Some Thoughts on WSO’s Conservation History, The Good They Do Oft Lies Buried Memories of Noel Cutright at his Induction into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame Noel Cutright and Conservation Noel Cutright and Citizen Science Noel Cutright and the Environment Dispersal Patterns and Pairing Behaviors of Non-territorial Sandhill Cranes (Peer-Reviewed) 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Winter Season: 2015–2016 WSO Records Committee Report: Winter 2015–2016 2015 Wisconsin Christmas Bird Count “By the Wayside”—Winter 2015–2016 Report of the 2016 Annual Meeting: Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Passenger Pigeon Award Winners 2016 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Index for Volume 78 Notes and Announcements
2016 Fall (vol. 78, no. 3)	Expanding our Gem From the Editors’ Desk: Our Youth and the Future of Birds Rachel Carson and a Childhood Sense of Wonder Making the Migratory Bird Treaty Work, Then and Now: A Centennial Assessment Collaborative Habitat Management in Agricultural Landscapes: Opportunities and Barriers to Farmer Involvement in the Central Wisconsin Grassland Conservation Area (Peer-Reviewed) The Effects of Building Size, Window Area, and Development on Bird-window Collisions in an Urban Landscape: A Preliminary Assessment 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon The Fall Season: 2015 “By the Wayside”—Fall 2015 WSO Records Committee Report: Fall 2015 About the Artists Notes and Announcements
2016 Summer (vol. 78, no. 2)	Incoming President’s Statement Outgoing President’s Statement: Every Ending is a New Beginning From the Editors’ Desk: The Future is Us Recent Declines in Gray Jays on Christmas Bird Counts in Northern Wisconsin Wisconsin Endangered Resources Report Status of the Cooper’s Hawk in Wisconsin Status of the Cooper’s Hawk in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Endangered Resources Report Number 8 Nest Site Selection and Breeding Survey of Belted Kingfishers in Wisconsin The Summer Season: 2015 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon “By the Wayside”—Summer 2015 WSO Records Committee Report: Summer 2015 Wisconsin Big Day Counts: 2015 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements
2016 Spring (vol. 78, no. 1)	President’s Statement: WSO and the DDT Battle: the Untold Story From the Editors’ Desk: Peer-review! Dead Robins and Disappearing Peregrines: WSO and the DDT Story The 2014 Wisconsin Christmas Bird Counts 50 Years Ago in The Passenger Pigeon “By the Wayside”—Spring 2015 Migratory Birds of the Apostle Islands and Bad River Corridor and Sloughs Connect Indigenous Nations for Global Conservation (Peer-reviewed) The Spring Season: 2015 WSO Records Committee Report: Spring 2015 Wisconsin May Day Counts 2015 About the Artists Guidelines for Authors and Artists Notes and Announcements

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