Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, not the state bird of Texas–though it should be! Photo: Beth Russell.

September’s Hurricane Ike reshaped some of the best-known birding sites in Texas and Louisiana. We’re happy to report that Jon Dunn’s tour of the Upper Texas Coast will run in 2009 as scheduled, and that we’re hoping to have a revamped Texas Migration Week return in 2010. Meanwhile, Gavin Bieber’s Whooping Cranes will take place in January, and his Rio Grande Valley tour has been rescheduled to mesh with the April 2009 ABA Convention in Corpus Christi.