Birdfinder: A Birder’s Guide to Planning North American Trips By: Jerry A. Cooper
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Binding: spiralbound |
Birdfinder: A Birder’s Guide to Planning North American Trips By: Jerry A. Cooper
Retail Price: $ 23.95 you can always remove it later.
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Binding: spiralbound |
“A truly novel concept, and admirable follow-through, distinguish this practical companion to regular bird-finding guides. Cooper's hard work eliminates guesswork on a traveler's part, as he guides the reader through 19 major trips and a baker's dozen of abbreviated forays. He includes a detailed map, local rare bird alert numbers, titles of birdfinding guides, lists of probable [and Possible and Remotely Possible] species, and highly detailed, day-by-day itineraries for trips, including suggested accommodations, with stopovers timed to maximize sightings. [This book] . . . arms a wanderer with almost everything needed to take a self-guided birding trip from Alaska to Nova Scotia, Texas to North Carolina. Cooper even includes a worksheet with estimated cost for each of the trips, from fuel and car rentals to meals and lodging. An appendix [the unique Birdfinder chart], aimed at the listing birder, tells at a glance where one is most likely to find target birds, and in what month.”
—Bird Watcher’s Digest
The 19 major trips are arranged by season, suggesting the best months or even weeks to visit each area. Winter options include Northern and Central California, Oklahoma, Northeastern Minnesota, Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley, and South Florida. Springtime is covered for Colorado, Texas, the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, coastal North Carolina, and Southeastern Arizona. Birders planning summer trips will want to study the chapters on Alaska, Minnesota and North Dakota, Colorado, West Texas, and Western Washington and Southwestern British Columbia. In late summer/early fall it's time to head back to Southeastern Arizona for the hummingbird show, swing through Central and Southern California to catch the post-breeding dispersal and the start of fall migration, or wander up to Maine, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick for the specialties of that beautiful region. Jerry winds up the year in the Niagara River Area, studying the huge concentrations of gulls that winter there.
Traveling birders won't want to ignore the baker's dozen trips, as they include some excellent areas: the Klamath Basin, the Platte River, Point Pelee, North-Central Michigan, St. Louis, Churchill, Manitoba, Northwestern Wyoming, Grand Manan and Machias Seal Island, North-Central Utah, the Delaware Bayshore, Cape May, Hawk Mountain, and Coastal Massachusetts.
This book was almost named A Birder's Guide to North American Hotspots, for it is that, but as you'll see, it offers you far, far more than mere hotspot descriptions. It is a planning guide that every birder would like to follow—site by site and bird by bird!