var myBirdFamily = { commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", familyname: "Tanagers", familysource: "../taxonomy/tanagers.html"};

var myAudioURL = "../audio/Western Tanager.mp3";

var myImages = new Array(
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternTanager7.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternTanager7.jpg", commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", description: "I am in love with the most beautiful bird...", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedTailedHawk5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedTailedHawk5.jpg", commonname: "Red-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo jamaicensis", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/DomesticChicken1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/DomesticChicken1.jpg", commonname: "Domestic Chicken", latinname: "Gallus Domesticus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto, CA - Hidden Valley Ranch", date: new Date(2005,4,28) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ForstersTern4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ForstersTern4.jpg", commonname: "Forster's Tern", latinname: "Sterna forsteri", description: "Alternate (ie.breeding) plumage - These terns are nesting on a few islands in the Charleston Slough.<br/>", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline/Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Osprey2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Osprey2.jpg", commonname: "Osprey", latinname: "Pandion haliaetus", description: "", location: "Winter Haven, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ParasiticJaeger2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ParasiticJaeger2.jpg", commonname: "Parasitic Jaeger", latinname: "Stercorarius parasiticus", description: "Alternate plumage", location: "Monterey, CA - about 10-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanKestrel8.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanKestrel8.jpg", commonname: "American Kestrel", latinname: "Falco sparverius", description: "", location: "Palo Alto, CA, Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,8,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedTailedHawk6A.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedTailedHawk6A.jpg", commonname: "Red-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo jamaicensis", description: "See <a href=\"../birdsasart/redtailedhawk6.html\">this page</a> for more images of this hawk landing on its perch.", location: "Palo Alto - CA, Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,8,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CaspianTernPair.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CaspianTernPair.jpg", commonname: "Caspian Tern", latinname: "Sterna caspia", description: "Alternate (ie.breeding) plumage - These terns are nesting on an island in the slough behind Nob Hill Foods in Redwood City.", location: "Redwood City - Nob Hill Foods Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,30) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonYellowThroat.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonYellowThroat.jpg", commonname: "Common Yellowthroat", latinname: "Geothlypis trichas", description: "The incredibly elusive, but incredibly stunning, \"Common Yellowthroat.\"<br/> The Common Yellowthroat's call is commonly referred to as \"witch-i-ty, witch-i-ty, witch-i-ty\",<br/> but it sounds like \"sa-vee-thya, sa-vee-thya, sa-vee-thya\" to me, and will always remind me of my dear friend Savitha.", location: "Moss Beach - Elkhorn Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernHarrier3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernHarrier3.jpg", commonname: "Northern Harrier", latinname: "Circus cyaneus", description: "What a fabulous bird!<br/> <br/> This is the female Northern Harrier, which outnumbers the male 4 to 1.<br/> The male, which I see occasionally (once a month or so) is nicknamed \"the grey \" in the birding community, since it is colored so differently (white/gray instead of brown).<br/> The easiest way to spot a Northern Harrier is the \"white rump patch\" on the top of its tail/rump.<br/> <br/> The Northern Harrier is also known as the \"Marsh Hawk\" since it hunts low to the ground in the salt marsh.<br/> It's face resembles an owl, for the same reasons. Its owl-like physiognomy helps give it the extraordinary hearing needed to locate rodents and other prey, as it flys low to the ground hunting for its food.<br/> <br/> I'm always grateful for a sighting.", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BullocksOriole.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BullocksOriole.jpg", commonname: "Bullock's Oriole", latinname: "Icterus bullockii", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SootyShearwater1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SootyShearwater1.jpg", commonname: "Sooty Shearwater", latinname: "Puffinus griseus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 5-10 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatBlueHeron4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatBlueHeron4.jpg", commonname: "Great Blue Heron", latinname: "Ardea herodias", description: "1st Year Juvenile?", location: "Monterey, CA", date: new Date(2005,7,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BurrowingOwl1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BurrowingOwl1.jpg", commonname: "Burrowing Owl", latinname: "Athene cunicularia", description: "My thanks to Tate Snyder who convinced me to get my bu++ out of the office and see these wonderful owls.", location: "Mountain View,CA - Shoreline Park", date: new Date(2005,7,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrownPelican1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrownPelican1.jpg", commonname: "Brown Pelican", latinname: "Pelecanus occidentalis", description: "", location: "Pescadero, CA - Pillar Point Lighthouse", date: new Date(2005,6,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternTanager6.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternTanager6.jpg", commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SnowyEgret3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SnowyEgret3.jpg", commonname: "Snowy Egret", latinname: "Egretta thula", description: "Every year Palo Alto Baylands Duck Pond plays host to nesting egrets.<br/> The Egret rookery first has Black-Crowned Night Herons which are then displaced by Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets.<br/> I was confused why egrets' lores change from yellow to pink, and yellow to green, and why their bills change color.<br/> It turns out that breeding hormones change all of their soft body parts - feet, bills, lores, etc.", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SurfScoter.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SurfScoter.jpg", commonname: "Surf Scoter", latinname: "Melanitta perspicillata", description: "", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AnnasHummingbird7.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AnnasHummingbird7.jpg", commonname: "Anna's Hummingbird", latinname: "Calypte anna", description: "", location: "Hayward, CA - Hayward Shoreline Refuge - aka Frank\'s Dump", date: new Date(2005,8,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackBelliedPlover9.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackBelliedPlover9.jpg", commonname: "Black-bellied Plover", latinname: "Pluvialis squatarola", description: "Male migrating black-bellied plover, in alternate/breeding plumage. Fall migration from the Arctic", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,8,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TownsendsWarbler2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TownsendsWarbler2.jpg", commonname: "Townsend's Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica townsendi", description: "Very confusing id for sex - After consulting Peterson\'s Warblers guide, I\'m calling this a <em>First Fall Male<em/>.", location: "Hayward, CA - Hayward Shoreline Refuge - aka Frank\'s Dump", date: new Date(2005,8,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonMurre1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonMurre1.jpg", commonname: "Common Murre", latinname: "Uria aalge", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA, About 5-10 miles at sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SouthPolarSkua2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SouthPolarSkua2.jpg", commonname: "South Polar Skua", latinname: "Stercorarius maccormicki", description: "This bad boy grew up in Antarctica on penguin meat.<br/> They are incredibly aggressive and will even land on shearwaters and pummel them to death to get food.<br/> The raptor of the sea, and a scarce bird for California (fortunately for the shearwaters and gulls!).<br/><br/> A South Georgia legend says: <br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>In the beginning...God gave man dominion over the fishes that swim in the sea, and fowl that fly in the air...<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;but the skua didn't get the message for she lived too far away.</em>", location: "Monterey, CA - about 15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ElegantTern8.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ElegantTern8.jpg", commonname: "Elegant Tern", latinname: "Sterna elegans", description: "Basic(non-breeding plumage)", location: "Coyote Point, CA", date: new Date(2005,7,24) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PiedBilledGrebe3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PiedBilledGrebe3.jpg", commonname: "Pied-billed Grebe", latinname: "Podilymbus podiceps", description: "", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,7,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CoopersHawk4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CoopersHawk4.jpg", commonname: "Cooper's Hawk", latinname: "Accipiter cooperii", description: "Juvenile", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,7,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SwainsonsHawk4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SwainsonsHawk4.jpg", commonname: "Swainson's Hawk", latinname: "Buteo swainsoni", description: "", location: "Highway 505 near Woodland, CA", date: new Date(2005,7,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Anhinga1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Anhinga1.jpg", commonname: "Anhinga", latinname: "Anhinga anhinga", description: "", location: "Winter Park, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedShoulderedHawk5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedShoulderedHawk5.jpg", commonname: "Red-shouldered Hawk", latinname: "Buteo lineatus", description: "Eating a frog!", location: "Winter Park, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PigeonGuillemot2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PigeonGuillemot2.jpg", commonname: "Pigeon Guillemot", latinname: "Cepphus columba", description: "Breeding plumage", location: "Pescadero, CA, Pillar Point Lighthouse", date: new Date(2005,6,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedBreastedSapsucker3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedBreastedSapsucker3.jpg", commonname: "Red-breasted Sapsucker", latinname: "Sphyrapicus ruber", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Holey Meadow", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteHeadedWoodpecker3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteHeadedWoodpecker3.jpg", commonname: "White-headed Woodpecker", latinname: "Picoides albolarvatus", description: "Bugs for the family<br/><br/> This gent foraged for his brood within a very small distance. I even saw him grab bugs from the tree next to the nest!", location: "Kernville, CA - Sequoia National Forest - Quaking Aspen Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlueGrosbeak1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlueGrosbeak1.jpg", commonname: "Blue Grosbeak", latinname: "Passerina caerulea", description: "Look at my cardinal bill", location: "Kernville, CA - Fay Ranch Road - Kern River Preserve", date: new Date(2005,5,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ForstersTern7.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ForstersTern7.jpg", commonname: "Forster's Tern", latinname: "Sterna forsteri", description: "Forster\'s terns hover over the water looking for food, and then \'plunge-dive\' to catch the small fish they see.", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline/Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,5,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/OrangeCrownedWarbler5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/OrangeCrownedWarbler5.jpg", commonname: "Orange-crowned Warbler", latinname: "Vermivora celata", description: "", location: "Walnut Creek - Mt. Diablo - Mitchell Canyon", date: new Date(2005,5,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteFacedIbis4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteFacedIbis4.jpg", commonname: "White-faced Ibis", latinname: "Plegadis chihi", description: "Juvenile - An unusual bird in the San Francisco Bay Area.<br/> We have been blessed with both a juvenile and an adult!", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline - Coast Casey Forebay", date: new Date(2005,5,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl4.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Milpitas - Ed Levin Park", date: new Date(2005,4,30) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TurkeyVulture3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TurkeyVulture3.jpg", commonname: "Turkey Vulture", latinname: "Cathartes aura", description: "", location: "Milpitas - Ed Levin Park", date: new Date(2005,4,30) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/MarshWren2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/MarshWren2.jpg", commonname: "Marsh Wren", latinname: "Cistothorus palustris", description: "I love wrens...But I especially love marsh wrens.<br/> Martians are elusive - easy to hear, but hard-to find...<br/><br/> Do enjoy <a href=\"http://eis.eit.uni-kl.de/%7Ekutzsche/birds/2005/shoreline_april/images/IMG_0301.jpg\">this superb picture</a> taken by my talented friend and classmate Thomas Kutzschebauch", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/YellowWarbler.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/YellowWarbler.jpg", commonname: "Yellow Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica petechia", description: "A classic yellow warbler - with trademark ochre streaks in the yellow chest.", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AcornWoodpecker3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AcornWoodpecker3.jpg", commonname: "Acorn Woodpecker", latinname: "Melanerpes formicivorus", description: "Acorn woodpeckers are communal. They nest in the same tree, or grove of trees.<br/> Where you see one acorn woodpecker, there is usually a few more nearby.", location: "Palo Alto - Stanford University", date: new Date(2005,4,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackSkimmer.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackSkimmer.jpg", commonname: "Black Skimmer", latinname: "Rynchops niger", description: "The Black Skimmer can close their pupils into a vertical slit like a cat.", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,3,21) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TreeSwallow1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TreeSwallow1.jpg", commonname: "Tree Swallow", latinname: "Tachycineta bicolor", description: "<p>Question: What do you do with a digital camera? Answer: Take 800 pictures of a bird that breaks the speed limit and hope a few turn out.<br/> These tree swallows were catching insects on the surface of the water - repeatedly making fly-bys. An hours worth of fly-bys allowed these four shots.", location: "Gilroy - Ogier Ponds", date: new Date(2005,3,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternGull.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternGull.jpg", commonname: "Western Gull", latinname: "Larus occidentalis", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,11) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatEgret.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatEgret.jpg", commonname: "Great Egret", latinname: "Ardea alba", description: "", location: "Marin Golf Course Ponds outside of Point Reyes", date: new Date(2005,2,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ClarksGrebePair.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ClarksGrebePair.jpg", commonname: "Clark's Grebe", latinname: "Aechmophorus clarkii", description: "Clark's Grebes and Western Grebes are hard to tell apart, but there are some significant clues...<br/> For starters, a Clark's Grebe has an orangish bill, while a Western has more of a greenish-yellow bill.", location: "Redwood Shores", date: new Date(2005,1,28) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/OspreyWithFish.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/OspreyWithFish.jpg", commonname: "Osprey", latinname: "Pandion haliaetus", description: "What a fish! Any guess what kind?", location: "Point Reyes - Visitor's Center", date: new Date(2005,2,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedtailedHawk13.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedtailedHawk13.jpg", commonname: "Red-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo jamaicensis", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - CA, Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,8,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackFootedAlbatross1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackFootedAlbatross1.jpg", commonname: "Black-footed Albatross", latinname: "Phoebastria nigripes", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 5-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ParasiticJaeger1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ParasiticJaeger1.jpg", commonname: "Parasitic Jaeger", latinname: "Stercorarius parasiticus", description: "Still in alternate/breeding plumage!", location: "Monterey, CA - about 10-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PinkFootedShearwater3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PinkFootedShearwater3.jpg", commonname: "Pink-footed Shearwater", latinname: "Puffinus creatopus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 5-10 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrandtsCormorant1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrandtsCormorant1.jpg", commonname: "Brandt's Cormorant", latinname: "Phalacrocorax penicillatus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - Monterey Harbor", date: new Date(2005,7,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedKnot1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedKnot1.jpg", commonname: "Red Knot", latinname: "Calidris canutus", description: "", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,7,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlueJay1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlueJay1.jpg", commonname: "Blue Jay", latinname: "Cyanocitta cristata", description: "", location: "Maitland, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatHornedOwl1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatHornedOwl1.jpg", commonname: "Great Horned Owl", latinname: "Bubo virginianus", description: "", location: "Maitland, FL - Audubon Raptor Sanctuary", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SandhillCrane1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SandhillCrane1.jpg", commonname: "Sandhill Crane", latinname: "Grus canadensis", description: "EVERYONE loves cranes.", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud - FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BaldEagle1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BaldEagle1.jpg", commonname: "Bald Eagle", latinname: "Haliaeetus leucocephalus", description: "", location: "Maitland, FL - Audubon Raptor Sanctuary", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CarolinaWren1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CarolinaWren1.jpg", commonname: "Carolina Wren", latinname: "Thryothorus ludovicianus", description: "IMHO (in my humble opinion) The coolest songbirds in the world are not canaries. They're wrens.", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LittleBlueHeron1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LittleBlueHeron1.jpg", commonname: "Little Blue Heron", latinname: "Egretta caerulea", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ShortTailedHawk1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ShortTailedHawk1.jpg", commonname: "Short-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo brachyurus", description: "Light Morph", location: "Winter Haven, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TricoloredHeron1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TricoloredHeron1.jpg", commonname: "Tricolored Heron", latinname: "Egretta tricolor", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternTanager5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternTanager5.jpg", commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CanyonWren1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CanyonWren1.jpg", commonname: "Canyon Wren", latinname: "Catherpes mexicanus", description: "He sang to me! A canyon wren's song is out of this world. Click on the V at the bottom left of this page (below the thumbnails).", location: "Kernville, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GrayFlycatcher1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GrayFlycatcher1.jpg", commonname: "Gray Flycatcher", latinname: "Empidonax wrightii", description: "The dark tip on the bill is a key fieldmark for this uncommon bird", location: "Kernville, CA - Sequoia National Forest", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HuttonsVireo4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HuttonsVireo4.jpg", commonname: "Hutton's Vireo", latinname: "Vireo huttoni", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,5,11) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SpottedTowhee4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SpottedTowhee4.jpg", commonname: "Spotted Towhee", latinname: "Pipilo maculatus", description: "", location: "Saratoga - Stevens Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,5,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HornedLark4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HornedLark4.jpg", commonname: "Horned Lark", latinname: "Eremophila alpestris", description: "", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LarkSparrow.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LarkSparrow.jpg", commonname: "Lark Sparrow", latinname: "Chondestes grammacus", description: "The <i>harlequin</i> of sparrows", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternMeadowlark3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternMeadowlark3.jpg", commonname: "Western Meadowlark", latinname: "Sturnella neglecta", description: "", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreenHeron3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreenHeron3.jpg", commonname: "Green Heron", latinname: "Butorides virescens", description: "", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternKingbird4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternKingbird4.jpg", commonname: "Western Kingbird", latinname: "Tyrannus verticalis", description: "", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseFinch4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseFinch4.jpg", commonname: "House Finch", latinname: "Carpodacus mexicanus", description: "Country finches are always more intensely colored than city and suburban birds.<br/> This finch is enjoying his favorite foods - thistle.<br/> Thistle provides the red pigment caretenoid, which becomes the red on his chest.<br/> The redness of his face and chest becomes a sexual 'proxy' for fitness - he who is red, can find thistle.", location: "Milpitas - Calaveras Road towards Sunol", date: new Date(2005,4,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Whimbrel.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Whimbrel.jpg", commonname: "Whimbrel", latinname: "Numenius phaeopus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,4,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseWren1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseWren1.jpg", commonname: "House Wren", latinname: "Troglodytes aedon", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,4,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernFlicker1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernFlicker1.jpg", commonname: "Northern Flicker", latinname: "Colaptes auratus", description: "", location: "Saratoga - Steven's Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,4,02) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AshThroatedFlycatcher.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AshThroatedFlycatcher.jpg", commonname: "Ash-throated Flycatcher", latinname: "Myiarchus cinerascens", description: "", location: "Saratoga - Steven's Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,4,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonMoorhen.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonMoorhen.jpg", commonname: "Common Moorhen", latinname: "Gallinula chloropus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/MarbledGodwit.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/MarbledGodwit.jpg", commonname: "Marbled Godwit", latinname: "Limosa fedoa", description: "This picture does not display the beautiful black and pink bill of the Marbled Godwit - this bird is too busy eating in the mud to show off...", location: "Palo Alto - Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanGoldfinch2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanGoldfinch2.jpg", commonname: "American Goldfinch", latinname: "Carduelis tristis", description: "This is an incredibly hard bird to photograph!...<br/> It's coloration plays havoc with light and shadow, and it never sits still very long.<br/> Fortunately, it's fairly common, so I'll get that perfect shot one day!", location: "Coyote Point", date: new Date(2005,3,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackNeckedStilt3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackNeckedStilt3.jpg", commonname: "Black-necked Stilt", latinname: "Himantopus mexicanus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,09) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WildTurkeyTom.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WildTurkeyTom.jpg", commonname: "Wild Turkey", latinname: "Meleagris gallopavo", description: "I saw this tom turkey (on the left) on a ridge in Foothill park and thought at first, idiotically, that it was a decoy planted by the rangers.<br/> After all, in real-life no turkey ever looks like that!. Then the decoy moved!<br/> Ben Franklin wanted to make this our national bird? Perhaps because it resembled many politicians?<br/><br/> What, I wonder, would be the bird for government bureaucrats?", location: "Palo Alto - Foothill Park", date: new Date(2005,2,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteTailedKiteWithMouse.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteTailedKiteWithMouse.jpg", commonname: "White-tailed Kite", latinname: "Elanus leucurus", description: "", location: "Ogier Ponds", date: new Date(2005,2,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanCoot.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanCoot.jpg", commonname: "American Coot", latinname: "Fulica americana", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Willet.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Willet.jpg", commonname: "Willet", latinname: "Catoptrophorus semipalmatus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,11) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl1.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl1.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanWhitePelican9.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanWhitePelican9.jpg", commonname: "American White Pelican", latinname: "Pelecanus erythrorhynchos", description: ".", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanKestrel2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanKestrel2.jpg", commonname: "American Kestrel", latinname: "Falco sparverius", description: "Male", location: "Maitland, Florida - Audubon Raptor Sanctuary", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BullocksOriole2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BullocksOriole2.jpg", commonname: "Bullock's Oriole", latinname: "Icterus bullockii", description: "Yes, he does intend to be noticed. This bird is so bright he's hard to look at! Awesome!", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,4,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CaspianTern.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CaspianTern.jpg", commonname: "Caspian Tern", latinname: "Sterna caspia", description: "Next to a pair of Long-Billed Dowitchers (as comparison)", location: "Redwood City - Nob Hill Foods Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,30) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonYellowThroat5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonYellowThroat5.jpg", commonname: "Common Yellowthroat", latinname: "Geothlypis trichas", description: "", location: "Moss Beach - Elkhorn Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernHarrier4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernHarrier4.jpg", commonname: "Northern Harrier", latinname: "Circus cyaneus", description: "Female hunting", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedtailedHawk14.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedtailedHawk14.jpg", commonname: "Red-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo jamaicensis", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - CA, Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,8,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ForstersTern8.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ForstersTern8.jpg", commonname: "Forster's Tern", latinname: "Sterna forsteri", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline/Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,5,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatBlueHeron5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatBlueHeron5.jpg", commonname: "Great Blue Heron", latinname: "Ardea herodias", description: "", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GoldenEagle1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GoldenEagle1.jpg", commonname: "Golden Eagle", latinname: "Aquila chrysaetos", description: "Adult", location: "Palo Alto - CA, Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,8,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BullersShearwater1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BullersShearwater1.jpg", commonname: "Buller's Shearwater", latinname: "Puffinus bulleri", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 5 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WilsonsPhalarope3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WilsonsPhalarope3.jpg", commonname: "Wilson's Phalarope", latinname: "Phalaropus tricolor", description: "Spinning Tops - Phalaropes spin like tops, once every second or two - making them very easy to ID!", location: "Milpitas/Alviso, CA - Coyote Creek Field Station Waterpond", date: new Date(2005,7,21) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackTurnstone2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackTurnstone2.jpg", commonname: "Black Turnstone", latinname: "Arenaria melanocephala", description: "Mixed in (and hiding) in a flock of willets. Basic/non-breeding plumage", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,7,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BurrowingOwl3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BurrowingOwl3.jpg", commonname: "Burrowing Owl", latinname: "Athene cunicularia", description: "", location: "Mountain View,CA - Shoreline Park", date: new Date(2005,7,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl11.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl11.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/EasternBluebird1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/EasternBluebird1.jpg", commonname: "Eastern Bluebird", latinname: "Sialia sialis", description: "", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud region, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CrestedCaracara1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CrestedCaracara1.jpg", commonname: "Crested Caracara", latinname: "Caracara cheriway", description: "Male", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud region, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/EasternMeadowlark1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/EasternMeadowlark1.jpg", commonname: "Eastern Meadowlark", latinname: "Sturnella magna", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LoggerheadShrike2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LoggerheadShrike2.jpg", commonname: "Loggerhead Shrike", latinname: "Lanius ludovicianus", description: "", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackVulture1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackVulture1.jpg", commonname: "Black Vulture", latinname: "Coragyps atratus", description: "", location: "Saddle Creek Preserve, near Lake Kissimmee, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedBelliedWoodpecker1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedBelliedWoodpecker1.jpg", commonname: "Red-bellied Woodpecker", latinname: "Melanerpes carolinus", description: "", location: "Winter Park, FL - Mead Gardens", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteIbis3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteIbis3.jpg", commonname: "White Ibis", latinname: "Eudocimus albus", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WoodStork1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WoodStork1.jpg", commonname: "Wood Stork", latinname: "Mycteria americana", description: "", location: "Saddle Creek Preserve, near Lake Kissimmee, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PileatedWoodpecker2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PileatedWoodpecker2.jpg", commonname: "Pileated Woodpecker", latinname: "Dryocopus pileatus", description: "My most favorite woodpecker", location: "Winter Park, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatCrestedFlycatcher1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatCrestedFlycatcher1.jpg", commonname: "Great Crested Flycatcher", latinname: "Myiarchus crinitus", description: "What an amazing flycatcher! The Great-Crested looks for snakeskins to adorn its nest.<br/> Imagine you're looking for some nice tasty eggs and you see a snakeskin... You'd think twice wouldn't you!<br/> A whole new business opportunity awaits - manufactured snakeskins for your garden to prevent marauding squirrels from harvesting your vegetables.", location: "Winter Park, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,11) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrownPelican5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrownPelican5.jpg", commonname: "Brown Pelican", latinname: "Pelecanus occidentalis", description: "Tail maximally fanned out for additional lift and drag.", location: "Half Moon Bay, CA - Princeton Harbor", date: new Date(2005,6,03) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/YellowRumpedWarbler3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/YellowRumpedWarbler3.jpg", commonname: "Yellow-rumped Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica coronata", description: "Male - (Audubon's Subspecies)", location: "Sequoia National Forest - CA, Quaking Aspen Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternTanager1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternTanager1.jpg", commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatTailedGrackle1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatTailedGrackle1.jpg", commonname: "Great-tailed Grackle", latinname: "Quiscalus mexicanus", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA - Lake Isabella", date: new Date(2005,5,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RockWren1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RockWren1.jpg", commonname: "Rock Wren", latinname: "Salpinctes obsoletus", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanRobin3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanRobin3.jpg", commonname: "American Robin", latinname: "Turdus migratorius", description: "Every time I see a bird, I keep reminding myself - this is the first time I have seen this bird.<br/> How many robins have I seen? How many have I photographed? And yet, every time is the first time.", location: "Kernville, CA - Kern River Preserve", date: new Date(2005,5,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/VioletGreenSwallow2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/VioletGreenSwallow2.jpg", commonname: "Violet-green Swallow", latinname: "Tachycineta thalassina", description: "Now you know why it's called the Gorgeous-Iridescent-Violet-Green Swallow", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/YellowBilledMagpie3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/YellowBilledMagpie3.jpg", commonname: "Yellow-billed Magpie", latinname: "Pica nuttalli", description: "", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,24) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WilsonsWarbler.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WilsonsWarbler.jpg", commonname: "Wilson's Warbler", latinname: "Wilsonia pusilla", description: "", location: "Alviso - San Francisco Bay Birding Observatory Banding Station", date: new Date(2005,4,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LazuliBunting1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LazuliBunting1.jpg", commonname: "Lazuli Bunting", latinname: "Passerina amoena", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,4,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WarblingVireo3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WarblingVireo3.jpg", commonname: "Warbling Vireo", latinname: "Vireo gilvus", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Wilderness Region", date: new Date(2005,4,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackPhoebe.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackPhoebe.jpg", commonname: "Black Phoebe", latinname: "Sayornis nigricans", description: "", location: "Saratoga - Steven's Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,4,02) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedNeckedPhalarope1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedNeckedPhalarope1.jpg", commonname: "Red-necked Phalarope", latinname: "Phalaropus lobatus", description: "Red-necked Phalaropes have \"reverse sexual dimorphism\". The males and females swap roles.<br/> The female is larger and more brightly-colored, while the male is the one who sits on the nest.<br/> <br/> This bird below is a male.<br/> It probably is en-route, migrating from Chile, to its breeding grounds in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.<br/> That's the same place that polar bears gather to breed.<br/><br/> See <a href=\"http://www.letsgobirding.com/RedNeckedPhalarope.htm\">here</a> for more great information about this bird", location: "Palo Alto - University Ave", date: new Date(2005,4,02) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NuttallsWoodpecker.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NuttallsWoodpecker.jpg", commonname: "Nuttall's Woodpecker", latinname: "Picoides nuttallii", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Harker Ave", date: new Date(2005,4,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Killdeer.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Killdeer.jpg", commonname: "Killdeer", latinname: "Charadrius vociferus", description: "Unlike most birds, Killdeer chicks are \"precocial\", not \"altricial\", and are capable of independence soon after birth.<br/> A precocial chick is quickly mobile, and requires little parental care.", location: "Palo Alto - Geng Road Bicycle Path", date: new Date(2005,3,24) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseSparrow.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseSparrow.jpg", commonname: "House Sparrow", latinname: "Passer domesticus", description: "The common House Sparrow is not related to New World Sparrows at all, and is considered more closely related to Pipits, and then Finches.<br/> It was imported from Europe to control the insect pest known as the cockchafer. Instead, it became a pest itself.<br/> It is now considered the most ubiquitous bird in the world. Despite that, it has been an EXTREMELY difficult bird for me to phind, phish, and photograph.<br/> It is the 101st ABA bird of this web site - so a special honor goes to the common House Sparrow.<br/> <br/> It is also a beautiful bird.", location: "Palo Alto - Duck Pond", date: new Date(2005,3,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PeregrineFalcon2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PeregrineFalcon2.jpg", commonname: "Peregrine Falcon", latinname: "Falco peregrinus", description: "Juvenile Anatum", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedWingedBlackbird3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedWingedBlackbird3.jpg", commonname: "Red-winged Blackbird", latinname: "Agelaius phoeniceus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Foothill Park", date: new Date(2005,2,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreaterScaup.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreaterScaup.jpg", commonname: "Greater Scaup", latinname: "Aythya marila", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,20) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LongBilledCurlew.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LongBilledCurlew.jpg", commonname: "Long-billed Curlew", latinname: "Numenius americanus", description: "See the <a href=\"./whimbrel.html?params&imageindex=1\"> Whimbrel</a> picture for an additional view of a curlew versus a whimbrel", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SurfScoterFemale.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SurfScoterFemale.jpg", commonname: "Surf Scoter", latinname: "Melanitta perspicillata", description: "", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LesserGoldfinch.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LesserGoldfinch.jpg", commonname: "Lesser Goldfinch", latinname: "Carduelis psaltria", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Harker Ave", date: new Date(2005,2,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/DownyWoodpecker.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/DownyWoodpecker.jpg", commonname: "Downy Woodpecker", latinname: "Picoides pubescens", description: "", location: "Point Reyes - Five Brooks Equestrian Center", date: new Date(2005,2,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RingNeckedPheasant.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RingNeckedPheasant.jpg", commonname: "Ring-necked Pheasant", latinname: "Phasianus colchicus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WoodDuckPair.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WoodDuckPair.jpg", commonname: "Wood Duck", latinname: "Aix sponsa", description: "What's that you say? Never seen a wood duck in Palo Alto? They are there, but they are incredibly shy birds.<br/> This is/was my \"nemesis\" bird. I heard from Kris Olsen that they were behind Oak Creek apartments behind the Stanford Shopping Center.<br/> After many, many trys to find them, I finally spotted the drake for a split second far away on the creek.<br/> I packed up all my considerable gear, headed for the car, and saw a pair. Furious unpacking ensued, and by then the pair had disappeared.<br/> But wait - there's another pair! :-)", location: "Palo Alto - San Francisquito Creek", date: new Date(2005,2,02) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackCrownedNightHeron.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackCrownedNightHeron.jpg", commonname: "Black-crowned Night-Heron", latinname: "Nycticorax nycticorax", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,1,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanWhitePelican10.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanWhitePelican10.jpg", commonname: "American White Pelican", latinname: "Pelecanus erythrorhynchos", description: ".", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedtailedHawk15.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedtailedHawk15.jpg", commonname: "Red-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo jamaicensis", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - CA, Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,8,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ParasiticJaeger3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ParasiticJaeger3.jpg", commonname: "Parasitic Jaeger", latinname: "Stercorarius parasiticus", description: "Basic/non-breeding plumage", location: "Monterey, CA - about 10-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteTailedKite5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteTailedKite5.jpg", commonname: "White-tailed Kite", latinname: "Elanus leucurus", description: "", location: "La Honda - Windy Hill Preserve - Highway 35", date: new Date(2005,3,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackSkimmer2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackSkimmer2.jpg", commonname: "Black Skimmer", latinname: "Rynchops niger", description: "", location: "Redwood City, CA - Radio Pond Road", date: new Date(2005,8,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackSkimmer2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackSkimmer2.jpg", commonname: "Black Skimmer", latinname: "Rynchops niger", description: "", location: "Redwood City, CA - Radio Pond Road", date: new Date(2005,8,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackBelliedPlover8.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackBelliedPlover8.jpg", commonname: "Black-bellied Plover", latinname: "Pluvialis squatarola", description: "Basic plumage", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,8,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TownsendsWarbler3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TownsendsWarbler3.jpg", commonname: "Townsend's Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica townsendi", description: "First Fall Male", location: "Hayward, CA - Hayward Shoreline Refuge - aka Frank\'s Dump", date: new Date(2005,8,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonMurre2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonMurre2.jpg", commonname: "Common Murre", latinname: "Uria aalge", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA, About 5-10 miles at sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SouthPolarSkua1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SouthPolarSkua1.jpg", commonname: "South Polar Skua", latinname: "Stercorarius maccormicki", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternGull3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternGull3.jpg", commonname: "Western Gull", latinname: "Larus occidentalis", description: "", location: "Coyote Point, CA", date: new Date(2005,7,24) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CoopersHawk3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CoopersHawk3.jpg", commonname: "Cooper's Hawk", latinname: "Accipiter cooperii", description: "Juvenile", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,7,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackSwift3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackSwift3.jpg", commonname: "Black Swift", latinname: "Cypseloides niger", description: "Near a town called Burney, in northern California (near Mt. Shasta, Lassen, etc.) there is a unique waterfall called McArthur-Burney Falls<br/> Black swifts make their nests BEHIND the waterfall. You know the old trick where the Indians escape their hunters by hiding behind a waterfall? :-)<br/> This is who taught it to them", location: "McArthur-Burney Falls, Burney, CA", date: new Date(2005,7,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SwainsonsHawk5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SwainsonsHawk5.jpg", commonname: "Swainson's Hawk", latinname: "Buteo swainsoni", description: "", location: "Highway 505 near Woodland, CA", date: new Date(2005,7,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl8.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl8.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ElegantTern2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ElegantTern2.jpg", commonname: "Elegant Tern", latinname: "Sterna elegans", description: "On migration...<br/> The migrating flock has a mixture of basic and alternate (non-breeding and breeding) plumages, although it's a bit hard to call out in the picture.<br/> Note the slightly decurved bill, and black edging of the primaries - diagnostic for an elegant tern in basic plumage.", location: "Bolinas, CA - Bolinas Lagoon", date: new Date(2005,6,24) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Anhinga2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Anhinga2.jpg", commonname: "Anhinga", latinname: "Anhinga anhinga", description: "", location: "Winter Park, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PigeonGuillemot1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PigeonGuillemot1.jpg", commonname: "Pigeon Guillemot", latinname: "Cepphus columba", description: "Breeding plumage", location: "Pescadero, CA, Pillar Point Lighthouse", date: new Date(2005,6,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedBreastedSapsucker2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedBreastedSapsucker2.jpg", commonname: "Red-breasted Sapsucker", latinname: "Sphyrapicus ruber", description: "You can see the sap on this sapsucker's bill.", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Holey Meadow", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteHeadedWoodpecker4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteHeadedWoodpecker4.jpg", commonname: "White-headed Woodpecker", latinname: "Picoides albolarvatus", description: "These lovely woodpeckers prefer sugar and ponderosa pines.<br/> Rumor has it that they will often hang from their pine-cones, sometimes upside-down.", location: "Kernville, CA - Sequoia National Forest - Quaking Aspen Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/YellowWarbler2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/YellowWarbler2.jpg", commonname: "Yellow Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica petechia", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Holey Meadow Campgrounds", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/MountainBluebird3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/MountainBluebird3.jpg", commonname: "Mountain Bluebird", latinname: "Sialia currucoides", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlueGrosbeak3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlueGrosbeak3.jpg", commonname: "Blue Grosbeak", latinname: "Passerina caerulea", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA - Fay Ranch Road - Kern River Preserve", date: new Date(2005,5,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AcornWoodpeckerNest.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AcornWoodpeckerNest.jpg", commonname: "Acorn Woodpecker", latinname: "Melanerpes formicivorus", description: "Every so often, I find one or two 'hot spots' in a park. It's a meadow, or a river bank, that is incredibly 'birdy'.<br/> The acorn woodpeckers are usually pretty clear indicators of a hot spot.<br/> This acorn woodpecker roost area has yielded over 20 species of birds, including orange-crowned warblers, red-shouldered hawks, hutton's vireos, house wrens...<br/><br/> Male emerging from nest hole, female on trunk, with black forehead band abutting red diagnostic for female. (Although this female\'s black forehead band is unusually thick!)", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,5,11) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteFacedIbis3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteFacedIbis3.jpg", commonname: "White-faced Ibis", latinname: "Plegadis chihi", description: "Every few minutes, these little red juju beans would fly out of the water into the ibis' mouth.", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline - Coast Casey Forebay", date: new Date(2005,5,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/MarshWren5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/MarshWren5.jpg", commonname: "Marsh Wren", latinname: "Cistothorus palustris", description: "Stokes describes a wren's song as \"scolding chatter\" - a very apt metaphor.", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PiedBilledGrebe1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PiedBilledGrebe1.jpg", commonname: "Pied-billed Grebe", latinname: "Podilymbus podiceps", description: "", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/OrangeCrownedWarbler1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/OrangeCrownedWarbler1.jpg", commonname: "Orange-crowned Warbler", latinname: "Vermivora celata", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,4,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedShoulderedHawkWithPrey.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedShoulderedHawkWithPrey.jpg", commonname: "Red-shouldered Hawk", latinname: "Buteo lineatus", description: "I'm not sure what prey it has between its feet - When it flew in and landed on the tree it looked like a rat or a vole.<br/> Of course, being a hawk, the second it landed it saw me raise my camera, and took off again.", location: "Redwood City - Edgewood Park", date: new Date(2005,3,30) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ForstersTern3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ForstersTern3.jpg", commonname: "Forster's Tern", latinname: "Sterna forsteri", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline/Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TurkeyVulture2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TurkeyVulture2.jpg", commonname: "Turkey Vulture", latinname: "Cathartes aura", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,3,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TreeSwallow4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TreeSwallow4.jpg", commonname: "Tree Swallow", latinname: "Tachycineta bicolor", description: "", location: "Gilroy - Ogier Ponds", date: new Date(2005,3,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatEgretNesting.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatEgretNesting.jpg", commonname: "Great Egret", latinname: "Ardea alba", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Duck Pond", date: new Date(2005,3,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AnnasHummingbird2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AnnasHummingbird2.jpg", commonname: "Anna's Hummingbird", latinname: "Calypte anna", description: "", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CanadaGoose2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CanadaGoose2.jpg", commonname: "Canada Goose", latinname: "Branta canadensis", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ClarksGrebePair2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ClarksGrebePair2.jpg", commonname: "Clark's Grebe", latinname: "Aechmophorus clarkii", description: "", location: "Redwood Shores", date: new Date(2005,1,28) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternTanager4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternTanager4.jpg", commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CaspianTern6.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CaspianTern6.jpg", commonname: "Caspian Tern", latinname: "Sterna caspia", description: "", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanKestrel1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanKestrel1.jpg", commonname: "American Kestrel", latinname: "Falco sparverius", description: "For more great pictures of this (captive) kestrel click <a href=\"../birdsasart/americankestrel.html\">here</a>", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BullocksOriole4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BullocksOriole4.jpg", commonname: "Bullock's Oriole", latinname: "Icterus bullockii", description: "To move right on the branch, he doesn't shuffle - he hops! (I had multiple shots of this).", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,4,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonYellowThroat2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonYellowThroat2.jpg", commonname: "Common Yellowthroat", latinname: "Geothlypis trichas", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernHarrier1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernHarrier1.jpg", commonname: "Northern Harrier", latinname: "Circus cyaneus", description: "Female hunting", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,04) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Osprey4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Osprey4.jpg", commonname: "Osprey", latinname: "Pandion haliaetus", description: "", location: "Winter Haven, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanAvocetBrokenWingDisplay1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanAvocetBrokenWingDisplay1.jpg", commonname: "American Avocet", latinname: "Recurvirostra americana", description: "Broken-Wing Display - The family of seven or eight chicks was on our <em>right</em> about 50 feet.<br/>The avocet drew our attention to the <em>left</em> about 20 feet.", location: "Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,4,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl14.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl14.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedTailedHawk3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedTailedHawk3.jpg", commonname: "Red-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo jamaicensis", description: "Juvenile - Subsequent picture is Chick", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,4,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BluewingedTeal1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BluewingedTeal1.jpg", commonname: "Blue-winged Teal", latinname: "Anas discors", description: "An east-coast vagrant! Bird #249! - A male, still in breeding plumage (a really odd bird).<br/> Crescent in face is diagnostic.", location: "Redwood City, CA - Radio Road pond", date: new Date(2005,8,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BewicksWren.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BewicksWren.jpg", commonname: "Bewick's Wren", latinname: "Thryomanes bewickii", description: "", location: "Palo Alto, CA - Harker Ave", date: new Date(2005,8,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/EuropeanStarling2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/EuropeanStarling2.jpg", commonname: "European Starling", latinname: "Sturnus vulgaris", description: "One of many molts", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LesserYellowlegs1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LesserYellowlegs1.jpg", commonname: "Lesser Yellowlegs", latinname: "Tringa flavipes", description: "", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WanderingTattler1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WanderingTattler1.jpg", commonname: "Wandering Tattler", latinname: "Heteroscelus incanus", description: "", location: "Santa Cruz, CA - near Natural Bridges Park", date: new Date(2005,8,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/MarbledGodwit2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/MarbledGodwit2.jpg", commonname: "Marbled Godwit", latinname: "Limosa fedoa", description: "", location: "Hayward, CA - Hayward Shoreline Refuge - aka Frank\'s Dump", date: new Date(2005,8,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Willet4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Willet4.jpg", commonname: "Willet", latinname: "Catoptrophorus semipalmatus", description: "Sunrise light", location: "Hayward, CA - Hayward Shoreline Refuge - aka Frank\'s Dump", date: new Date(2005,7,31) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackFootedAlbatross2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackFootedAlbatross2.jpg", commonname: "Black-footed Albatross", latinname: "Phoebastria nigripes", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 5-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CaliforniaGull1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CaliforniaGull1.jpg", commonname: "California Gull", latinname: "Larus californicus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 10-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ParasiticJaeger5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ParasiticJaeger5.jpg", commonname: "Parasitic Jaeger", latinname: "Stercorarius parasiticus", description: "Basic plumage - what a beautiful bird...", location: "Monterey, CA - about 10-15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PomarineJaeger2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PomarineJaeger2.jpg", commonname: "Pomarine Jaeger", latinname: "Stercorarius pomarinus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SootyShearwater3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SootyShearwater3.jpg", commonname: "Sooty Shearwater", latinname: "Puffinus griseus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 5-10 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RuddyTurnstone1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RuddyTurnstone1.jpg", commonname: "Ruddy Turnstone", latinname: "Arenaria interpres", description: "Special thanks to Bob Power for pointing out this bird that was right behind me!<br/> The black contrasting background is the fortunate reflection of the harbor pilings in the water coupled with low light.", location: "Monterey, CA - Monterey Harbor", date: new Date(2005,7,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrandtsCormorant2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrandtsCormorant2.jpg", commonname: "Brandt's Cormorant", latinname: "Phalacrocorax penicillatus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - Monterey Harbor", date: new Date(2005,7,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Peacock1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Peacock1.jpg", commonname: "Peacock", latinname: "Pavo crisatus", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - Monterey Harbor", date: new Date(2005,7,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Sanderling1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Sanderling1.jpg", commonname: "Sanderling", latinname: "Calidris alba", description: "Wave chasers. They run up and down the beach - just like kids chasing waves.", location: "Moss Beach - Salinas River Beach", date: new Date(2005,7,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BurrowingOwl5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BurrowingOwl5.jpg", commonname: "Burrowing Owl", latinname: "Athene cunicularia", description: "", location: "Mountain View,CA - Shoreline Park", date: new Date(2005,7,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatHornedOwl2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatHornedOwl2.jpg", commonname: "Great Horned Owl", latinname: "Bubo virginianus", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/DarkEyedJunco3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/DarkEyedJunco3.jpg", commonname: "Dark-eyed Junco", latinname: "Junco hyemalis", description: "For some reason, I can never photograph this bird...These are the best I've done so far.<br/> A common bird, but uncommonly difficult for me to get a decent picture.", location: "Sunnyvale/Saratoga - Stevens Creek Park", date: new Date(2005,7,02) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RedKnot3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RedKnot3.jpg", commonname: "Red Knot", latinname: "Calidris canutus", description: "", location: "Hayward, CA - Shorline Park, aka Frank's Dump", date: new Date(2005,7,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BaldEagle2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BaldEagle2.jpg", commonname: "Bald Eagle", latinname: "Haliaeetus leucocephalus", description: "", location: "Maitland, FL - Audubon Raptor Sanctuary", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlueJay2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlueJay2.jpg", commonname: "Blue Jay", latinname: "Cyanocitta cristata", description: "", location: "Maitland, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SnailKite1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SnailKite1.jpg", commonname: "Snail Kite", latinname: "Rostrhamus sociabilis", description: "", location: "Maitland, Florida - Audubon Raptor Sanctuary", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SwallowTailedKite1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SwallowTailedKite1.jpg", commonname: "Swallow-tailed Kite", latinname: "Elanoides forficatus", description: "That not so subtle grid pattern you see is the wire mesh that forms the aviary cage.<br/> I hate taking pictures through wire cages, but with a little photoshop, and a very long lens that has a narrow depth of field, <br/> you can at least get something...", location: "Maitland, FL - Audubon Raptor Sanctuary", date: new Date(2005,6,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarredOwl1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarredOwl1.jpg", commonname: "Barred Owl", latinname: "Strix varia", description: "I was so excited when I spotted this owl, I lost my voice, and couldn't call it out!<br/> As Bob Power says, birding as heart-pounding excitement. And it is!", location: "Lake Kissimmee region, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CattleEgret1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CattleEgret1.jpg", commonname: "Cattle Egret", latinname: "Bubulcus ibis", description: "Alternate(Breeding) Plumage", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud area, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GlossyIbis1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GlossyIbis1.jpg", commonname: "Glossy Ibis", latinname: "Plegadis falcinellus", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernBobwhite1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernBobwhite1.jpg", commonname: "Northern Bobwhite", latinname: "Colinus virginianus", description: "", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud area - FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SandhillCrane2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SandhillCrane2.jpg", commonname: "Sandhill Crane", latinname: "Grus canadensis", description: "", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud - FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TuftedTitmouse1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TuftedTitmouse1.jpg", commonname: "Tufted Titmouse", latinname: "Baeolophus bicolor", description: "", location: "Kissimmee/St. Cloud - FL", date: new Date(2005,6,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CarolinaWren2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CarolinaWren2.jpg", commonname: "Carolina Wren", latinname: "Thryothorus ludovicianus", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonMoorhen2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonMoorhen2.jpg", commonname: "Common Moorhen", latinname: "Gallinula chloropus", description: "Fight!", location: "Lake Kissimmee, Florida - Saddle Creek Park", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/EurasianCollaredDove2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/EurasianCollaredDove2.jpg", commonname: "Eurasian Collared-Dove", latinname: "Streptopelia decaocto", description: "", location: "Winter Haven, Florida", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Limpkin1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Limpkin1.jpg", commonname: "Limpkin", latinname: "Aramus guarauna", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LittleBlueHeron2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LittleBlueHeron2.jpg", commonname: "Little Blue Heron", latinname: "Egretta caerulea", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ShortTailedHawk4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ShortTailedHawk4.jpg", commonname: "Short-tailed Hawk", latinname: "Buteo brachyurus", description: "Start of fight with an Osprey that was nesting nearby.", location: "Winter Haven, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TricoloredHeron2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TricoloredHeron2.jpg", commonname: "Tricolored Heron", latinname: "Egretta tricolor", description: "", location: "Lake Kissimmee, FL - Saddle Creek", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LongBilledCurlew2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LongBilledCurlew2.jpg", commonname: "Long-billed Curlew", latinname: "Numenius americanus", description: "See the <a href=\"./whimbrel.html?params&imageindex=1\"> Whimbrel</a> picture for an additional view of a curlew versus a whimbrel", location: "Palo Alto, CA - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,6,04) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrownPelican4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrownPelican4.jpg", commonname: "Brown Pelican", latinname: "Pelecanus occidentalis", description: "", location: "Half Moon Bay, CA - Princeton Harbor", date: new Date(2005,6,03) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/PelagicCormorant1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/PelagicCormorant1.jpg", commonname: "Pelagic Cormorant", latinname: "Phalacrocorax pelagicus", description: "Our smallest cormorant, found only on rocky ocean coasts.<br/> Breeding plumage - Note thin dark bill and the diagnostic white flank patch of the cormorant on the right.<br/><br/> My first ornithological experience - risking life and limb crawling (literally) over a rocky cliff for a close(r) shot.<br/>", location: "Half Moon Bay, CA - Fitzgerald Marine Preserve", date: new Date(2005,6,03) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HermitWarbler1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HermitWarbler1.jpg", commonname: "Hermit Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica occidentalis", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Holey Meadow Campgrounds", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LincolnsSparrow1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LincolnsSparrow1.jpg", commonname: "Lincoln's Sparrow", latinname: "Melospiza lincolnii", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest - CA, Holey Meadow", date: new Date(2005,5,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackThroatedGrayWarbler1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackThroatedGrayWarbler1.jpg", commonname: "Black-throated Gray Warbler", latinname: "Dendroica nigrescens", description: "", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/FoxSparrow1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/FoxSparrow1.jpg", commonname: "Fox Sparrow", latinname: "Passerella iliaca", description: "Thick-Billed subspecies", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Troy Meadow", date: new Date(2005,5,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SummerTanager1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SummerTanager1.jpg", commonname: "Summer Tanager", latinname: "Piranga rubra", description: "The white stuff is not snow - it's \"cotton\" from the cottonwood tree", location: "Kernville, CA - Kern River Preserve", date: new Date(2005,5,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CanyonWren2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CanyonWren2.jpg", commonname: "Canyon Wren", latinname: "Catherpes mexicanus", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternTanagerFemale1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternTanagerFemale1.jpg", commonname: "Western Tanager", latinname: "Piranga ludoviciana", description: "Female", location: "Sequoia National Forest, CA - Chimney Creek Campground", date: new Date(2005,5,19) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackThroatedSparrow1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackThroatedSparrow1.jpg", commonname: "Black-throated Sparrow", latinname: "Amphispiza bilineata", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrewersSparrow1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrewersSparrow1.jpg", commonname: "Brewer's Sparrow", latinname: "Spizella breweri", description: "Zen sparrow - The only fieldmarks are no fieldmarks.", location: "Kernville, CA", date: new Date(2005,5,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SaysPhoebe1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SaysPhoebe1.jpg", commonname: "Say's Phoebe", latinname: "Sayornis saya", description: "", location: "Kernville, CA - Kern River Preserve", date: new Date(2005,5,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrewersBlackbird2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrewersBlackbird2.jpg", commonname: "Brewer's Blackbird", latinname: "Euphagus cyanocephalus", description: "Every time I see a bird, I keep reminding myself - this is the first time I have seen this bird.<br/> This blackbird was the only bird I saw for a while. So honor him? - and he returned the honor - proud and with bug.", location: "San Francisco - Legion of Honor", date: new Date(2005,5,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackHeadedGrosbeak2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackHeadedGrosbeak2.jpg", commonname: "Black-headed Grosbeak", latinname: "Pheucticus melanocephalus", description: "", location: "Walnut Creek - Mt. Diablo - Mitchell Canyon", date: new Date(2005,5,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AllensHummingbird.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AllensHummingbird.jpg", commonname: "Allen's Hummingbird", latinname: "Selasphorus sasin", description: "", location: "Los Altos - Hidden Villa Ranch", date: new Date(2005,4,31) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HornedLark5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HornedLark5.jpg", commonname: "Horned Lark", latinname: "Eremophila alpestris", description: "", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LarkSparrow2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LarkSparrow2.jpg", commonname: "Lark Sparrow", latinname: "Chondestes grammacus", description: "Note single spot in clean chest.", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreenHeron4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreenHeron4.jpg", commonname: "Green Heron", latinname: "Butorides virescens", description: "", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LesserScaup1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LesserScaup1.jpg", commonname: "Lesser Scaup", latinname: "Aythya affinis", description: "Is this a lesser, or greater Scaup? Confusing, isn't it!", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RuddyDuck2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RuddyDuck2.jpg", commonname: "Ruddy Duck", latinname: "Oxyura jamaicensis", description: "", location: "Sunnyvale - Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Treatment Plant", date: new Date(2005,4,23) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternKingbird3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternKingbird3.jpg", commonname: "Western Kingbird", latinname: "Tyrannus verticalis", description: "", location: "Livermore - Mines Road", date: new Date(2005,4,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BlackNeckedStilt4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BlackNeckedStilt4.jpg", commonname: "Black-necked Stilt", latinname: "Himantopus mexicanus", description: "", location: "Alviso - Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,4,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhimbrelWithCurlew.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhimbrelWithCurlew.jpg", commonname: "Whimbrel", latinname: "Numenius phaeopus", description: "Whimbrel on right, Long-Billed Curlew on left for comparison.", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,4,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HuttonsVireo2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HuttonsVireo2.jpg", commonname: "Hutton's Vireo", latinname: "Vireo huttoni", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,4,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseWren2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseWren2.jpg", commonname: "House Wren", latinname: "Troglodytes aedon", description: "", location: "Sunol - Sunol Regional Wilderness", date: new Date(2005,4,10) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Bushtit.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Bushtit.jpg", commonname: "Bushtit", latinname: "Psaltriparus minimus", description: "Wow! What a cooperative bird. I've been trying for 4 months to take a picture of a bushtit. <br/> They are constantly moving, reside in the inside of a shrub, and are incredibly small (compare the bird's size to the oleander leaf next to it).<br/> And here, during a 15 minute break at a business meeting at Shoreline, this bird sat calmly and let me take thirty pictures.", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,4,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SpottedTowhee2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SpottedTowhee2.jpg", commonname: "Spotted Towhee", latinname: "Pipilo maculatus", description: "Aaargh - photographer approaching.", location: "Saratoga - Stevens Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,4,03) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernFlicker2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernFlicker2.jpg", commonname: "Northern Flicker", latinname: "Colaptes auratus", description: "", location: "Saratoga - Steven's Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,4,02) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AshThroatedFlycatcher2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AshThroatedFlycatcher2.jpg", commonname: "Ash-throated Flycatcher", latinname: "Myiarchus cinerascens", description: "", location: "Saratoga - Steven's Creek County Park", date: new Date(2005,4,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/StellersJay2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/StellersJay2.jpg", commonname: "Steller's Jay", latinname: "Cyanocitta stelleri", description: "", location: "Redwood City - Edgewood Park", date: new Date(2005,3,30) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanGoldfinch3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanGoldfinch3.jpg", commonname: "American Goldfinch", latinname: "Carduelis tristis", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,3,28) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ForstersTern6.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ForstersTern6.jpg", commonname: "Forster's Tern", latinname: "Sterna forsteri", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline/Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreatBlueHeron.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreatBlueHeron.jpg", commonname: "Great Blue Heron", latinname: "Ardea herodias", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,3,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnSwallow.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnSwallow.jpg", commonname: "Barn Swallow", latinname: "Hirundo rustica", description: "", location: "Pescadero - Ano Nuevo State Beach", date: new Date(2005,3,25) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LeastSandpiper3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LeastSandpiper3.jpg", commonname: "Least Sandpiper", latinname: "Calidris minutilla", description: "", location: "Redwood City, CA - Radio Road Pond", date: new Date(2005,9,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SavannahSparrow2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SavannahSparrow2.jpg", commonname: "Savannah Sparrow", latinname: "Passerculus sandwichensis", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SemipalmatedPlover.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SemipalmatedPlover.jpg", commonname: "Semipalmated Plover", latinname: "Charadrius semipalmatus", description: "Female", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteBreastedNuthatch.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteBreastedNuthatch.jpg", commonname: "White-breasted Nuthatch", latinname: "Sitta carolinensis", description: "White-Breasted Nuthatches will spiral around a branch looking for insects. This includes going sideways down, up, and upside-down.<br/> If you miss a shot the first time, be patient, they will spiral around again.", location: "Palo Alto - Arastradero Preserve", date: new Date(2005,3,20) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CliffSwallow2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CliffSwallow2.jpg", commonname: "Cliff Swallow", latinname: "Petrochelidon pyrrhonota", description: "Cliff Swallows always reside near water. One reason is they need a good source of mud to make their nests.", location: "Shoreline - Charleston Slough", date: new Date(2005,3,18) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/LongBilledDowitcher.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/LongBilledDowitcher.jpg", commonname: "Long-billed Dowitcher", latinname: "Limnodromus scolopaceus", description: "Changing from winter/basic to breeding/alternate plumage.<br/> No white on the belly indicates Long-Billed, not Short-Billed.<br/> See <a href=\"./shortbilleddowitcher.html\">Short-Billed Dowitcher</a>, or flock picture below, for comparison.", location: "Palo Alto - Duck Pond", date: new Date(2005,3,17) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WhiteTailedKite6.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WhiteTailedKite6.jpg", commonname: "White-tailed Kite", latinname: "Elanus leucurus", description: "", location: "La Honda - Windy Hill Preserve - Highway 35", date: new Date(2005,3,15) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BrownHeadedCowbird.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BrownHeadedCowbird.jpg", commonname: "Brown-headed Cowbird", latinname: "Molothrus ater", description: "\"Brood parasites\", brown-headed cowbirds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. Cowbirds come from a unique niche,<br/> eating the insects that are near bison herds. Since they had to follow the wandering herds, they had no time build nests, brood them, feed their young, etc.<br/> The female lays as many as 40 eggs a year in the nests of other species, including warblers, vireos, song sparrows, and to a limited extent, Red-Winged Blackbirds.", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternSandpiper3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternSandpiper3.jpg", commonname: "Western Sandpiper", latinname: "Calidris mauri", description: "", location: "Redwood City, CA - Radio Road Pond", date: new Date(2005,9,07) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SouthPolarSkua4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SouthPolarSkua4.jpg", commonname: "South Polar Skua", latinname: "Stercorarius maccormicki", description: "", location: "Monterey, CA - about 15 miles out to sea", date: new Date(2005,7,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/ShortBilledDowitcher2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/ShortBilledDowitcher2.jpg", commonname: "Short-billed Dowitcher", latinname: "Limnodromus griseus", description: "Identifying a Short-billed Dowitcher versus a Long-Billed dowitcher takes several pages in Kenn Kaufman's superb book Advanced Birding.<br/> Even after several clues, it's hard to tell, and I may have incorrectly identified this bird. If I read this right, these are the key field marks:<br/><br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. White ring/edge around the scapulars, and tertials mark the bird as a juvenile<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Transition to breeding plumage - noted in patterns of scapulars and tertials, as well as rufous barring<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. White belly (not visible in all views, but definitely there) - no white belly on long-billed dowitcher<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. Spots on lower breast<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5. Bars on belly are confusing - and could be read as long-billed dowitcher as well<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6. Scapular/tertials have a particular black and orange pattern that is unique in Short-bills - Long-billed Dowitchers have more black.", location: "Palo Alto Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,09) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Bufflehead2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Bufflehead2.jpg", commonname: "Bufflehead", latinname: "Bucephala albeola", description: "I bought tele-extender's right after this frustrating experience", location: "Gilroy - Ogier Ponds", date: new Date(2005,3,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GraylagGoose1.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GraylagGoose1.jpg", commonname: "Graylag Goose", latinname: "Anser Anser", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Duck Pond", date: new Date(2005,3,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/MourningDove.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/MourningDove.jpg", commonname: "Mourning Dove", latinname: "Zenaida macroura", description: "Mourning dove's are the closest survivor to the extinct American Passenger Pigeon.<br/> I suspect Mourning Doves wont be extinct in our near future. ;-)", location: "Palo Alto - Harker Ave.", date: new Date(2005,2,24) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SharpShinnedHawk.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SharpShinnedHawk.jpg", commonname: "Sharp-shinned Hawk", latinname: "Accipiter striatus", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Chef Chu's (San Antonio and El Camino)", date: new Date(2005,2,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WildTurkeyTom2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WildTurkeyTom2.jpg", commonname: "Wild Turkey", latinname: "Meleagris gallopavo", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Foothill Park", date: new Date(2005,2,22) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernPintail.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernPintail.jpg", commonname: "Northern Pintail", latinname: "Anas acuta", description: "", location: "Redwood Shores - Radio Road Pond", date: new Date(2005,2,21) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternScrubJay.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternScrubJay.jpg", commonname: "Western Scrub-Jay", latinname: "Aphelocoma californica", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Harker Ave", date: new Date(2005,2,21) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanCrow.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanCrow.jpg", commonname: "American Crow", latinname: "Corvus brachyrhynchos", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,20) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CedarWaxwing2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CedarWaxwing2.jpg", commonname: "Cedar Waxwing", latinname: "Bombycilla cedrorum", description: "My all time favorite picture - taken from my front porch on a rainy day. How zen is that?", location: "Palo Alto - Harker Ave", date: new Date(2005,2,20) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreaterYellowlegs.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreaterYellowlegs.jpg", commonname: "Greater Yellowlegs", latinname: "Tringa melanoleuca", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,20) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RockPigeon.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RockPigeon.jpg", commonname: "Rock Pigeon", latinname: "Columba livia", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,20) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarrowsGoldeneye.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarrowsGoldeneye.jpg", commonname: "Barrow's Goldeneye", latinname: "Bucephala islandica", description: "I misidentified this bird the first time, calling it a Common Goldeneye.<br/> Barrow's Goldeneyes have a sharp angle between head and bill, whereas common goldeneye's are more gently sloped.", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SurfScoterCloseup.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SurfScoterCloseup.jpg", commonname: "Surf Scoter", latinname: "Melanitta perspicillata", description: "", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonMerganserMale.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonMerganserMale.jpg", commonname: "Common Merganser", latinname: "Mergus merganser", description: "", location: "Ogier Ponds", date: new Date(2005,2,13) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanCootCloseup.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanCootCloseup.jpg", commonname: "American Coot", latinname: "Fulica americana", description: "", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/RingBilledGull.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/RingBilledGull.jpg", commonname: "Ring-billed Gull", latinname: "Larus delawarensis", description: "Of all the birds, gulls are the hardest to identify. They have extensive hybridization (for example, Western X Glaucous-Winged),<br/> and they have plumages and bill patterns that change for the first two to four years.<br/> Gulls are at the bottom of my list of knowledge, but if I take them one bird photo at a time...<br/><br/> Adult - Summer plumage", location: "Mountain View - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,12) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/GreenWingedTeal.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/GreenWingedTeal.jpg", commonname: "Green-winged Teal", latinname: "Anas crecca", description: "", location: "Shoreline - Palo Alto", date: new Date(2005,2,11) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BandTailedPigeon2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BandTailedPigeon2.jpg", commonname: "Band-tailed Pigeon", latinname: "Patagioenas fasciata", description: "", location: "Five Brooks Equestrian Center - Point Reyes", date: new Date(2005,2,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CinnamonTeal.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CinnamonTeal.jpg", commonname: "Cinnamon Teal", latinname: "Anas cyanoptera", description: "", location: "Point Reyes", date: new Date(2005,2,08) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/WesternMeadowlark.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/WesternMeadowlark.jpg", commonname: "Western Meadowlark", latinname: "Sturnella neglecta", description: "", location: "Palo Alto Duck Pond", date: new Date(2005,2,06) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/SnowyEgretInFlight.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/SnowyEgretInFlight.jpg", commonname: "Snowy Egret", latinname: "Egretta thula", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,04) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Mallard.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Mallard.jpg", commonname: "Mallard", latinname: "Anas platyrhynchos", description: "", location: "Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,01) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernShovelersInFlight.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernShovelersInFlight.jpg", commonname: "Northern Shoveler", latinname: "Anas clypeata", description: "", location: "Redwood Shores", date: new Date(2005,1,28) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/TundraSwan.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/TundraSwan.jpg", commonname: "Tundra Swan", latinname: "Cygnus columbianus", description: "In December, we go to Lodi to the Isenberg Crane Reserve and watch the Sandhill Cranes and Tundra Swans.<br/> There are several thousand swans - and the combination of sunsets, swans, and sounds really are majestic.<br/> These pictures are very badly digiscoped at 60x...But next time :-)", location: "Lodi - Isenberg Crane Preserve", date: new Date(2004,11,04) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BarnOwl9.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BarnOwl9.jpg", commonname: "Barn Owl", latinname: "Tyto alba", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/DomesticChicken3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/DomesticChicken3.jpg", commonname: "Domestic Chicken", latinname: "Gallus Domesticus", description: "", location: "Palo Alto, CA - Hidden Valley Ranch", date: new Date(2005,4,28) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/Osprey5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/Osprey5.jpg", commonname: "Osprey", latinname: "Pandion haliaetus", description: "", location: "Winter Haven, FL", date: new Date(2005,6,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanAvocetBrokenWingDisplay2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanAvocetBrokenWingDisplay2.jpg", commonname: "American Avocet", latinname: "Recurvirostra americana", description: "Broken-Wing Display -", location: "Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,4,16) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CaspianTern5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CaspianTern5.jpg", commonname: "Caspian Tern", latinname: "Sterna caspia", description: "", location: "Alviso, CA - Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge", date: new Date(2005,8,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanKestrel7.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanKestrel7.jpg", commonname: "American Kestrel", latinname: "Falco sparverius", description: "", location: "Los Altos, CA - Wildlife Rescue with Karen Hoyt", date: new Date(2005,7,05) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/BullocksOriole3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/BullocksOriole3.jpg", commonname: "Bullock's Oriole", latinname: "Icterus bullockii", description: "Little or no orange in this bird!", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,3,29) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/CommonYellowThroat3.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/CommonYellowThroat3.jpg", commonname: "Common Yellowthroat", latinname: "Geothlypis trichas", description: "", location: "Palo Alto - Shoreline", date: new Date(2005,2,26) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/NorthernHarrier2.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/NorthernHarrier2.jpg", commonname: "Northern Harrier", latinname: "Circus cyaneus", description: "Female hunting", location: "Palo Alto - Baylands", date: new Date(2005,2,04) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/AmericanAvocet10.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/AmericanAvocet10.jpg", commonname: "American Avocet", latinname: "Recurvirostra americana", description: "", location: "Redwood City, CA - Radio Road Pond", date: new Date(2005,8,22) }
	);