BIRDS AND BIRDING March 2, 2007
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When asked what he enjoys about birding, Bryan Pfeiffer answered: “Nothing combines … color and flight and song like birds.” That’s it in a nutshell for me too. I think of bird songs as grace notes and of birds themselves as indicators of all that’s right and good about the natural world. Birds have been my teachers, and I’m still learning from them.
ROGER TORY PETERSON February 6, 2007
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Roger Tory Peterson said of his field guides: “My primary contribution — field recognition — could not have been made had I followed the traditional path as a biologist. Because of my art background I approached things visually rather than phylogenetically, hence the Peterson field guide system was born.”
