When I first took up birdwatching in the mid 1990s (knowingly and intentionally, that is; I’d been watching them casually long before that) one of the first books I read on the subject in an effort to learn how to do it was Pete Dunne’s “The Feather Quest.”
For most of the places I visit, a single field guide is sufficient to cover the area at hand; however when I travel in China, with its 1,431 species of birds to be found within its borders, no single field guide has previously been sufficient to cover the expansive area across which I must travel on my duly appointed factory-visiting rounds. Fortunately, this past January that changed…
After being rejected by four other publishers who thought the market for such a book was too small to be worth their time, when Roger Tory Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was first published on 27 April 1934 by Houghton Mifflin in […]
In 2020, Jennifer L. Bristol took her readers on a guided tour of how best to watch birds in parking lots around the U.S. state of Texas. Now she’s back with a second field guide that will lead them into an even more overlooked category of location for where productive bird watching may be practiced: cemeteries.