Birding Guides -Birders and a long drive

Birders – Birding Guides and a Long Driving Trip

By Donna Bessken

Why am I a birder? What is so special about my birding guides? What actually happens on those long drives to meetings? A short true story may shed some light on those issues. Often I am surprised when driving along at 65 miles an hour and I see a red tail hawk overhead and someone says “Oh look at the buzzard.”

I almost never know whether to let them continue to call it a buzzard or pull out my birding guide and show them the difference between hawks and vultures. Read the rest of this entry »

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Birdwatching Guides – What to Look for when Choosing a Birdwatching Guide

How to Buy Birding Guides
February 09, 2009 by greenelf

What to Look for when Choosing a Birdwatching Guide
How do you buy birding guides? Carefully and with an open mind. You may have a particular author in mind at first because you have read about him or her. However, newer field guides for birding may have been written since then that will be a better match for your learning style or for your personal interests.

For example, in early years, there were no birding guides and sketches and written desciptions were all that people could refer to for identification purposes. Then along came the artists of the new American colonies, like Bartram and Audubon and Wilson. Read the rest of this entry »