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Current Ornithology

Edited by Richard Johnston

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The appearance of the first volume of a projected series is the occasion for comment on scope, aims, and genesis of the work. The scope of Current Ornithology is all of the biology of birds. Ornithology, as a whole-organism science, is concerned with birds at every level of biÂ ological organization, from the molecular to the community, at least from the Jurassic to the present time, and over every scholarly discipline in which bird biology is done; to say this is merely to expand a dicÂ tionary definition of ""ornithology. "" The aim of the work, to be realized over several volumes, is to present reviews or position statements conÂ cerning the active fields of ornithological research. The reviews will be relatively short, and often will be done from the viewpoint of a readilyÂ identified group or school. Such a work could have come into being at any time within the past fifty years, but that Current Ornithology appears now is a result of events that are only seven to eight years old. One important event was the initiation in 1975-1976 of the Workshop on a National Plan for Ornithology, under the directorship of James R. King and Walter J. Bock, cosponsored by the American Ornithologists' Union and the NaÂ tional Science Foundation. Part of the Workshop's interests lay in pubÂ lications resources, and certain kinds of information on publications were obtained by means of a questionnaire.