I sure didn’t proofread my last book title. The Crossley ID Guide to
Raptors Lots of excellent photos! You can quiz yourself with pages of photo
views of multiple raptors on a page.

Diann

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:05 PM Diann Stone wrote:

> Golden Field Guide (1966) in which I recorded sightings beginning 1971.
>
> I often refer to The Birder’s Handbook by P. Ehrlich, D. Dobkin, and D.
> Wheye
>
> Beautiful Beachcombers Shorebirds by Arthur Morris for photography and
> text.
>
> The Crisskwy ID Guide Raptors by Richard Crossley, J Liguori, B. Sullivan
> for photography to help hone raptor ID immature to adult, perched and in
> flight. A fabulous tool!
>
> Diann Stone Boise Depot Bench
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 9:53 PM Diann Stone wrote:
>
>> How about my Golden Field Guide Birds of North A
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 2:59 PM lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] < >> ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for starting this thread, Larry. I’ve birded Belize on several
>>> occasions & visited the Belize Zoo founded by Sharon Matola. Bruce Barcott
>>> authored a non-fiction book about Sharon’s environmental attempt to
>>> preserve the “Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw”, the book’s title. I won’t
>>> give the spoiler alert.
>>>
>>> Others are more field guide oriented: my grandmother’s “Audubon Guide
>>> All Birds of East & Central North America” by Richard Pough 1953 ed, for
>>> sentimental reasons. Although, it does have interesting info on Eskimo
>>> Curlew, Ivory-billed WP & Kirtland’s Warbler. Also, a Christmas gift from
>>> my parents the yr I got my BS in Wildlife Biology: the 2 vol “The Bird Life
>>> of Texas” by Oberholser & illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Packed
>>> with great bird biology info from a time when field studies were, indeed,
>>> hands-on.
>>>
>>> Not, a bird oriented book but I also enjoy books about the Rocky Mt
>>> fur-trapper era. And an Idahoan, Vardis Fisher, who wrote the popular
>>> “Mountain Man”, also wrote a now out-of-print book “Pemmican” about the
>>> Canadian Rockies fur-trapper era when North West trappers were competing
>>> with Hudson Bay trappers. A great read & can sometimes locate on secondary
>>> market.
>>>
>>> Brian Carrigan
>>> Blackfoot
>>>
>>>
>>