The One We've Been Waiting For!
Attention, all North American birders. The ultimate field guide has arrived--Ken Kaufman's new Focus Guide to the Birds of North America! Not since Roger Tory Peterson's landmark guides has one book combined all the essential elements a birder needs to quickly and accurately make field...
Innovative and modern
Field Guides of Birds come in two different forms and each has its supporters. Some folks prefer those showing reality using one or more photographs. Others prefer those based on paintings that can be made to highlight key features. Kaufman's Field Guide attempts to blend the two approaches by...
Sources of further information: If birding is a spare-time hobby for you, this may be the only bird guide you'll ever need. But if you become more deeply involved, you'll find many detailed references available. The Peterson Field ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Animal Nature: The real-life effort that inspired Hollywood's 'Big Miracle ...
Let's start this week's roundup of wildlife news on the big screen ... and off it.
"Big Miracle," as movie titles go, is one of those larger-than-life Hollywoodisms that cues the inspirational music and demand for hankies. And admittedly, "Big Job Demanding Big Science, Big International Cooperation and Big Luck" would have been a little long for the marquee. But it would have been more accurate, according to an online interview with Dave Withrow, a federal marine mammal biologist who in 1988 took part in the two-week effort to rescue three gray whales trapped by sea ice off Barrow, Alaska. The real-life effort inspired the Universal Pictures version, out this month.
Withrow still works for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Fisheries Science Center. An excerpt from the interview:
"One company sent chain saws to help cut holes in the ice. Another sent portable generators to provide light and power. We cut a series of holes in the
Kenn Kaufman describes his new Field Guide to Advanced Birding ...
by Chuck Hagner
The new Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding, published this month, began as a simple update of the guide field before, but along the way, turned into a completely new book. Eighty-five percent of the material is new, as the book is to focus on, as suggested in the subtitle: "Understanding what you see and hear." Kaufman: Recipients of the Peterson Field Guide Advanced Birding was someone who was an active birder.
And looking back, it's difficult at this point even imagine how different the world birdwatching in North America was the end of 1980 than today.The options are on the rise - Birder's World Magazine has just launched - so things were getting better available. [Laughs.] But for the ornithologists active, if you want to identify a bird challenging, there were very few resources. There were the old Peterson guide. There was the leadership of Gold. And the leaders of the National Geographic had just left....
A couple guide authors have taken the photographic method in some other interesting directions. Kenn Kaufman has used digitally altered photographs in his Kaufman Field Guides. The photos are placed on a neutral background, making the bird stand out
Binoculars are strung around her neck, a bird guide is tucked under her arm. She can tell you with certainty the migratory songbirds she has seen, those that are a rare sighting. Ken Keffer. education director for the Black Swamp Bird Observatory,
Clipping into a zipline and flying through the canopy of a West Virginia hardwood forest gives thrill seekers a decidedly different perspective on their favorite birds. By Jennifer Bogo/Photography by Jeff Hutchens “All right, who wants to go first?
It was very well respected, and recognized as one of the most detailed and accurate books of its kind," said Kenn Kaufman, an author and naturalist known for his popular field guides on North American birds and butterflies.
The National Audubon Society and the American Birding Association (ABA) have joined forces to protect birds. The initiative pairs one of the nation's oldest, most recognizable names in conservation with a younger, highly respected organization of
A couple guide authors have taken the photographic method in some other interesting directions. Kenn Kaufman has used digitally altered photographs in his Kaufman Field Guides. The photos are placed on a neutral background, making the bird stand out
Binoculars are strung around her neck, a bird guide is tucked under her arm. She can tell you with certainty the migratory songbirds she has seen, those that are a rare sighting. Ken Keffer. education director for the Black Swamp Bird Observatory,
It was very well respected, and recognized as one of the most detailed and accurate books of its kind," said Kenn Kaufman, an author and naturalist known for his popular field guides on North American birds and butterflies.
The National Audubon Society and the American Birding Association (ABA) have joined forces to protect birds. The initiative pairs one of the nation's oldest, most recognizable names in conservation with a younger, highly respected organization of