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A Brief History of American Birding
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds ... Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; and the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as Alexander Wilson (a convicted blackmailer) and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon. Scott Weidensaul also recounts the explosive growth of modern birding that began when an awkward schoolteacher named Roger Tory Peterson published A Field Guide to the Birds in 1934 ...
"A naturalist and federally licensed bird bander, he is passionate about birding. His vivid descriptions of his own experiences should send many a reader out of doors to look for the small, contained miracle that is a bird." - PW.
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Born in 1959, Scott Weidensaul has lived
almost all of his life among the long ridges and endless valleys
of eastern Pennsylvania, in the heart of the central
Appalachians, a landscape that has defined much of his work.
His writing career began in 1978 with a weekly natural history
column in the local newspaper, the Pottsville Republican
in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. The column
soon led a fulltime reporting job, which he held until 1988,
when he left to become a freelance writer specializing in nature
and wildlife. (He continued to write on nature for newspapers,
however, including long-running columns for the Philadelphia
Inquirer and Harrisburg Patriot-News.)
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Scott Weidensaul: why-densaul
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