Good Birders Don't Wear White

By Lisa A. White

Book Overview

In these 50 light and fun original essays, the biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level, on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding. Whether satirizing bird snobs or relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, each essay is as chock-full of helpful information as it is entertaining.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618756426
• ISBN13: 9780618756421
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative

With as much experience as one can have, I believe that someone will find something new and useful just like I did. Nice short articles accentuated that make for easy reading.

Good book for stoplights?

These are short vignettes (2 to 3 pages) by a very impressive group of bird experts that will help you with your techniques and etiquette. Although the etiquette is common sense the stories are applied with light humor making this a very easy and pleasant read.

Not a how-to book, but a delightful read with wonderful illustrations

If you're looking for an encyclopedic how-to book on birding, this is not it. Rather, these essays by some of the top names in the business are reflections on birdwatching experiences with some lessons derived from those often hilarious experiences thrown in. There are some useful tips to be gleaned along the way, no doubt, but what you will really enjoy is discovering the sense of common experience with the writers even if you haven't been to these locales. I found myself chuckling throughout and thinking, "Oh, boy. Yep, that's happened to me." Or, "I've seen that too many times. When will people learn?" It's a good refresher on the do's and don't's, and a refreshing read on a wonderful avocation. I can't say enough about the illustrations--delightful, amusing, creative, and funny, for starters. They are an excellent addition to the essays. I hope we see more of Mr. Braunfield's work in other books soon. I'm giving the book 5 stars just for the illustrations alone. Lastly, this would make a great gift for the avid or amateur birder or birdwatcher in your life. You know the ones...they can be found with binoculars at the ready, decked out in white...or not, sometimes on private lands, sometimes on national forests and grasslands. What are those? Read The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History and see.