Recent Literature

The Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society presents "Bridges" outstanding members and their contributions to Audubon. J. Fletcher and P. Fletcher. 2004. CD presentation. 730 3 Crabs Rd., Sequim, WA 98382-7851 (Well-illustrated biographical account of the life to date, career and post-retirement activities of 1963 WBBA President Eugene Kridler. Kridler obtained a banding permit during his term as Refuge Manager at Sacramento, California, from 1956-1960, banding 4,970 birds of 63 species by 1958 and about 1 00,000 birds by the time of his being honored by the Olympic Audubon Society in 2004. Although initially banding waterfowl to aid in management, Kridler's banding soon expanded to mist-netting passerines. Research projects included colordyeing Tundra Swans wintering in California. Sightings of these birds showed that some nested in the Kuskokwim area of Alaska, others in the Mackenzie River delta of the Northwest Territories. After moving to Hawaii as the first full-time employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, responsible for both the Hawaiian Islands and central and south Pacific U.S. islands, he continued to use banding in routine management efforts, then used banding and other marking techniques on turtles, birds and seals as Endangered Species Coordinator 1973-1979, including color dying Hawaiian Stilts, a study that confirmed that they migrated among islands, and banding Laysan Teal, Marianas Mallards and Laysan Finches to monitor transplanting efforts. Since retirement to Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Kridler has banded passerines, raptors and waterfowl extensively there, using mist-nets and various traps .) MKM