I response to Ian's question about books for birders, Scott Weidensaul's new
book "Return to Wild America: a search for the Continent's Natural Soul."
I've just finished and like Weidensaul's other books is wonderful. This
book is essentially a 50th anniversary tribute to Peterson and Fishers
classic "Wild America" -- the book that led to the Big Year idea, although
this was certainly not the intent of the authors. If you've read "Wild
America", you know the book is not only about birds and birding, but a
series of wonderful profiles of those places in North America that were
still "wild" in 1953 (Newfoundland to Florida, to S. Texas, to the Sierra
Madre Oriental of Mexico, to the Olumpic Peninsula finishing in the
Pribiloffs). In "Return to Wild America," there is certainly much for the
birder, but as Weidensaul visits those same places Peterson and Fisher
visited 50 years ago, we read about the degradation and destruction of many
of those previously "wild" landscapes. Weidensaul also visits some areas
not visited by Peterson and Fisher to round out this great read. I will be
giving several copies of this book as Christmas presents this year and I
hope some of you do as well.

Bob McCready
Director, Prairie Wings
The Nature Conservancy
4889 Eagle Harbor Dr.
Bainbridge, WA 98110
206 780-1102 work
206 842-0168 fax
206 419-9442 cell
bmccready at tnc.org <mailto:bmccready at tnc.org>
nature.org



Message: 8
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:25:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Ian Paulsen <birdbooker at zipcon.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] books for birders
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
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HI:
So what Christmas/Holiday books are birders buying as gifts or want for
gifts?

--

Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way!"


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