Changes to The Nebraska Bird Review

Authors

• Janis Paseka, Nebraska Ornithologists' UnionFollow

Date of this Version

12-2025

Document Type

Article

Citation

Nebraska Bird Review, volume 93, number 4, December 2025, p. 154

Comments

Published by the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union, Inc.

Abstract

As of this issue, The Nebraska Bird Review has been in existence for 93 years, looking very much now as it did when it began in 1933. However, due to the increasing costs of printing and postage, there will be some changes in its future. Our newsletter, The Burrowing Owl, is already provided online to our members, in a user-friendly and informative form. Future issues of The Nebraska Bird Review will also utilize a digital format to offer a more timely and colorful publication.

This is the final issue for which Ross Silcock will be compiler of the seasonal reports, a prodigious job which Ross has been doing for 32 years. His reports always provided a wealth of information and were the anchor of each issue. I'm not sure the Bird Review would have continued to exist without his reports. This is also the final issue for me as editor, a position I held for 22 years, during which time I was assisted by co-editors Joe Gubanyi for 17 years and Steve Dinsmore for 5 years before him. Their input was essential, and I always regarded them as the brains of the editorial staff. It was invaluable to work with people who understand things like mitochondrial genomes and sympatric breeding ranges, since my skill set runs to the proper usage of semicolons and hanging indents.

I am happy to introduce Dan Leger as the new editor of The Nebraska Bird Review. Dan is no stranger to most of you, since he is a long-time member of the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union and served as its president from 2012 through 2016. Dan has a Ph.D. in biological psychology and was a professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for many years. We are looking forward to seeing the changes and improvements he will make in The Nebraska Bird Review.