Summary: In the early 1950s the late Frances Williams began writing essays for the Midland Naturalist newsletter, "The Phalarope." She edited the newsletter for 35 years, as well as becoming one of the founding members of the Texas Ornithological Society and of it's Bird Records Committee. From Marfa Public Radio, in cooperation with the Sibley Nature Center in Midland, Texas, this is Nature Notes. Hello, I'm Dallas Baxter. Frances Williams collated the Southern Great Plains report for the Audubon Society's publication "American Birds" for 25 years, and was the first to publish research on a classic West Texas bird, the Cassin's sparrow, in Arthur Bent's encyclopedic "Life Histories of America...
