Subject: [Tweeters] new publication: Birds of Washington
Date: Apr 25 17:40:47 2005
From: Aaron Martin - aamartin at gmail.com


I got my copy today and it looks fantastic! My compliments to all involved.

Aaron Martin
Seattle, WA

On 4/25/05, Hal Opperman <hal at catharus.net> wrote:
> Now published:
>
> Birds of Washington: Status and Distribution, edited by Terence R. Wahl,
> Bill Tweit, and Steven G. Mlodinow (Corvallis: Oregon State University
> Press, 2005). List price $65.
>
> A comprehensive treatise of the quality of this one is a fifty-year event.
> Indeed, its only two predecessors date from 1953 (Jewett et al.) and 1909
> (Dawson and Bowles).
>
> Not an identification guide nor is it a picture book, although fine drawings
> by Shawneen Finnegan and G. Scott Mills are scattered throughout, and Dick
> McNeely's photo of a Red Crossbill graces the jacket. Tightly edited,
> information-packed species accounts are authored by a team of nearly 50
> Washington ornithologists. Each account features subspecies (when relevant),
> habitat, and occurrence, along with a paragraph of remarks, a list of
> noteworthy records, and a distribution map (by Kelly Cassidy). The accounts
> are written by nearly 50 Washington ornithologists. The book also includes
> informative essays on bird habitats of Washington (by Chris Chappell), avian
> conservation (by Joe Buchanan), and other topics, and an exhaustive
> bibliography. This is a book you will be consulting and learning from for
> years to come.
>
> The Seattle Audubon Society Nature Shop received an order on Saturday. No
> doubt the book will soon be available at other retails outlets as well, if
> it is not already.
>
> Hal Opperman
> Medina, WA
> hal at catharus.net
>
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