Subject: A Bird Finding Guide to Alaska
Date: Nov 7 11:36:37 1994
From: Dan Victor - dvictor at u.washington.edu


FYI. --Dan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 94 10:31:18 PST
From: nlethaby at mri.com
To: dvictor at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: book on alaska

Here is a short summary. Dennis Paulson also did a short review in
WOSNEWS in June and has since field tested the book.

A Bird Finding Guide to Alaska

The guide is 152 pages and includes 14 maps.

The guide is primarily intended for visiting birders and concentrates on
describing how to see birds that do not occur commonly in the US outside
Alaska. A secondary focus is on species that are easily seen in Alaska but
hard in parts of the US (e.g Hudsonian Godwit is hard on the west coast,
Townsend's Warbler is hard on the east coast).

The guide is split into 3 main sections:

1/Planning Your Visit
2/Site Accounts
3/Species Accounts

Planning your visit covers issues like when to come and how to make
optimal use of time and money. The site accounts cover 22 sites:

Anchorage, Denali Nat. Park, Denali Highway,Steese Highway, Delta Junction,
Glenn Highway, Seward, Kenai, Homer, Homer-Dutch Harbor Ferry,Cordova,
Kodiak, Cold Bay, Yukon Delta, Nome, Wales, Kotzebue/Kelly Bar, Gambell,
Barrow, Prudhoe Bay, Pribilofs, Adak,and Attu.

Each site account describes the birds and where to find them. Logistical
information, such as accommodation, car rental, boat trips, etc. is alss
included.

The species accounts describe how to see the most interesting of Alaska`s
regularly occurring species. These accounts cross reference the site
accounts. The book gives very specific information on how find difficult
species like Boreal Owl, Whiskered Auklet, and Spectalced Eider.

To order the book, you should send a check for $14.95 + $3.00 shipping
to:

Nick Lethaby
1558 Vista Club Circle, #103
Santa Clara, CA 95054

If you want to talk to me directly, my telephone numbers are:

home: (408) 982 0921
work: (408) 486 5686

Thanks for your interest

Nick Lethaby <nlethaby at mri.com>