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by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved
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Green Heroon with Wings Up
White Rock Lake - specific
Except for my own version of a White Rock Lake Map, the White Rock Lake Master Plan is the best map of White Rock Lake I've ever seen (1.1 megabyte download), but it's a future plan, not what's there now. There's hope. The dog park near Mockingbird Point (itself disintegrating despite its 5-years-ago depiction on the map) is gone.
To be replaced by an "interactive center." I guess it's not good enough we can go out there and interact with the area with our own minds and bodies, we gotta have an interactive center — akin to the interpretive centers at too many national parks. What a load.
Birds of White Rock Lake and Vicinity - a non-alphabetized list of bird species and how common they are, maybe. Driving instructions are out of date as the City chopped Lawther Drive up to prevent us from driving around the lake, once a popular diversion.
Fishing White Rock Lake
The White Rock Lake Foundation
An Unofficial Guide to Scenic White Rock Park
For The Love of the LakeWhite Rock Lake General Subject Files, 1921-1953
White Rock Lake Museum in the Bath House Cultural Center
Dallas Parks & Recreation Overview
The White Rock Creek entry in Wikipedia (informative and extensive)The White Rock Lake entry in Wikipedia is significantly smaller and needing editing and expansion.
Handbook of Texas Online entries for White Rock Creek and White Rock Lake.
Birds Beyond White Rock Lake
Audubon Dallas - and their links page of Texas bird groups includes info about the White Rock area. WARNING: The AD website is populated by some really nice people and an in-group of real snots who are condescending and rude to beginners.
The Virtual Birder - Texas Rare Bird Alerts
Texas Wild - Texas Wildlife Identification & Viewing GuideBirds of Texas - Small, often indistinct photographs of birds but great information about markings, voice, where they're to be found, habitat and nests for a long list of Texas birds.
Dallas Audubon Bird Talk Forums
North Central Texas Birds - a checklist of birds detailing their relative abundance
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
The Care and Feeding of Injured Wild Birds - from The Wild Bird Care Center in Ottawa
BLOGS
Since I finally snapped that this journal is a blog (Thanks again, Betsy.), I've been looking at others. One of the best I've seen — beautiful bird and insect photographs — at DigDeep.
Photographers
Xenogere - Birds, animals, insects and beyond by Jason M. Hogle, who helps with identifications
Birds As Science
Cornell Lab of Ornithology including The Birds of North America
Birds of Stanford - remarkable scholarship about birds that visit Stanford University in Palo Alto, California
Robot Birdwatcher Seeks elusive ivory-billed woodpecker believed extinct for half century
Splish, splash, drip, zip: birds do all kinds of things to fix their feathers. It's a life-or-death job! — Bird grooming techniques - This page keeps referring to photographs, but apparently whoever owned them got them back. Still, nice information.
Specific bird species
American White Pelicans
Movements and Mortality of American White Pelicans Fledged in Three Montana Colonies — may be read online
Foraging behavior of American white pelicans (Pelecanus Erythrorthyncox) in Western Nevada - very short
American White Pelican / Rough-billed Pelican — brief description and other info, most of it seems accurate
Familiar Birds - American White Pelican - a first-person account of visiting and seeing where they nest
Birds as nuissance