[Tweeters] Hal Opperman moves on

[Jane Hadley via Tweeters]

Dear Tweeters: Hal Opperman's contribution to birding in Washington 
State is staggering.

Here's an incomplete list: Member of  the Seattle Audubon Society Board 
for six years 1996-2002; prime mover in creation of Seattle Audubon’s 
Science
Committee; leader of team that produced the marvelous online BirdWeb 
(https://www.birdweb.org/); major mover and recruiter in the four-county 
Breeding Bird Atlas, its surveys and eventual publication and placement 
online; re-organizer of the Seattle Audubon Christmas Bird Count; field 
trip leader.

ALSO, pre-Internet, the first administrator of the invaluable Bird Box 
for six years from 1995 to 2001 (a phone system for reporting notable 
sightings, available 24/7 to anyone who called);co-owner and manager for 
three decades of the Tweeters mailing list; charter member of the 
Washington Ornithological Society (WOS); WOS treasurer; editor of five 
issues of WOS's scholarly journal Washington Birds.

ALSO, editor of and major contributor to A Birder's Guide to Washington 
(2003), the state's main bird-finding guide (636 pages); key advisor and 
contributor to the second edition of A Birder's Guide to Washington 
(2015); co-author of three small field guides aimed at beginning birders 
(Birds of the Puget Sound Region, Birds of the Willamette Valley Region, 
and Birds of Southwestern British Columbia), all of them best sellers 
that have had several reprintings.

Overall, it is a truly remarkable record of achievement and service. 
Thank you, Hal!

Hal received WOS's Zella M. Schultz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 
and was given a standing ovation at the WOS Conference at which it was 
presented.

Jane Hadley and Randy Robinson

Seattle, Washington

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