Birder Interrupted
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Birder Interrupted

A Twelve-Month US Journey Beginning in 1962 That Ended in 2005

  1. 474 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Birder Interrupted

A Twelve-Month US Journey Beginning in 1962 That Ended in 2005

About this book

Inspired by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's book Wild America, recent high school graduate M. Ralph Browning embarked on a tightly budgeted, year-long trip in the US looking for birds. The year was 1962. His 1955 VW Beetle broke after nine months, which forced a premature end to the journey. In 2005, after matters of military duty, college, a family, and a career in birds at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the author resumed the interrupted trip. This time, he was with the girl he'd left behind in 1962, and they birded Texas, the Southwest, and California. The author chronicles the trip with observations on birds while touching on history, geology, and conservation. The cost of keeping alive includes periodic notes on the price of gasoline (about $0.33/gallon in 1962) and food. The author had earlier written to numerous birders for information about birding particular locations, and many of those individuals across the country showed him birds and invited him into their homes for a gratefully appreciated warm bed and home cooking. The 2005 leg of the journey was assisted by bird finding guides and the help of the legendary Jon Dunn and numerous motels.

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Information

Publisher
Resource Publications
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9798385202454
9798385202461
eBook ISBN
9798385202478
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Illustrations
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Initiation
  9. Chapter 2: Malheur Was Good
  10. Chapter 3: Meandering Snake
  11. Chapter 4: Red Rock
  12. Chapter 5: Yellowstone, the First Days
  13. Chapter 6: More Yellowstone and Big Sky Country
  14. Chapter 7: Mainly the Plains
  15. Chapter 8: Mosquito Coasts
  16. Chapter 9: Warblering
  17. Chapter 10: A Stint in Time on the Way East
  18. Chapter 11: Remembering Maine
  19. Chapter 12: August Assemblage
  20. Chapter 13: Hawk Mountain
  21. Chapter 14: Capital Birding
  22. Chapter 15: Dismal, Hatteras, Mattamuskeet
  23. Chapter 16: Whiskers and Doing Charleston
  24. Chapter 17: Okefenokee on My Mind
  25. Chapter 18: Florida, the Early Miles
  26. Chapter 19: The Florida Keys and Christmas Count Fever
  27. Chapter 20: Everglades and a New Plan
  28. Chapter 21: Going North, Going Home
  29. Chapter 22: Forty-Two Years Later
  30. Chapter 23: Texas Migrants and Chickens
  31. Chapter 24: Austin City Limits and Southward
  32. Chapter 25: Up the River and Around the Bend
  33. Chapter 26: Go West . . . Man
  34. Chapter 27: Arizona Byways
  35. Chapter 28: Oh, Those California Birds
  36. Chapter 29: The Last Bird

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