Subject: [Tweeters] bird books
Date: Aug 15 12:39:07 2006
From: Guttman,Burton - GuttmanB at evergreen.edu


Well, yesterday I picked up a copy of Tony Liguori's Hawks from Every Angle (Princeton U. P.), which looks like a terrific way to get better at identifying hawks in flight. It should be used along with the now-classic Hawks in Flight, by Dunne, Sibley, and Sutton.

I've also been making good use of Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion (Houghton Mifflin), which is full of great information about details of habitat, flight patterns, and other subtle points that contribute to identification of birds by their jizz. Much in the same vein, with emphasis on perceiving subtleties, is The Shorebird Book, by O'Brien, Crossley, and Karlson (Houghton Mifflin). This is not to detract in any way from our own Dennis Paulson's wonderful books on shorebirds, from which I've learned an enormous amount; the books are complementary, not competitors. I'll also recommend Donald Kroodsma's The Singing Life of Birds (also Houghton Mifflin). Yeah, yeah--you guys are gonna say I'm just prejudiced in favor of Houghton Mifflin books, but it is a fact of life that Lisa White and her colleagues know how to find and develop excellent books about birds, and there are more to come.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503

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Subject: [Tweeters] bird books



HI:
I was wondering what NEW bird books people have been reading this summer?

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