A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas of North America - Softcover

Paul Lehman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878788159 ISBN 13: 9781878788153

Publisher: American Birding Association, 2001

Synopsis

The vast expanse of North America is home to more than 800 bird species, spread across an amazing variety of habitats. A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas is the first guide to cover North America city-by-city. The book's birding trips visit most of the major habitats on the continent, among them some of the best birding sites in the U.S. and Canada. The more than 400 sites described include close-in urban parks and preserves as well as more-distant locations up to two hours from the downtown center. Whether birding for two hours or an entire day, the birder will find specific directions and 160 maps to the most desirable birding sites in and around each city. Cities covered are Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo/Niagara, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Halifax, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Montreal, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Saint Louis, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington, D.C., and Winnipeg. Each chapter was authored by a local birding expert (or team of experts), and was compiled and edited by Paul Lehman, former editor of ABA's Birding and one of North America's most traveled and most knowledgeable birders. This comprehensive guide to finding birds in North America's cities and environs will greatly aid any birder's search for breeding, wintering, and migrant species, vagrants, and other sought-after birds. A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas contains advice and directions for finding such species as Harlequin Duck, Smnil Kite, Gyrfalcon, Spruce Grouse, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Yellow Tail, Rock Sandpiper, Atlantic Puffin, Northern Hawk Owl, Great Gray Owl, Red-cockaded and Three-toed Woodpeckers, Yellow-billed Magpie, California Gnatcatcher, Bicknell's Thrush, Le Conte's Thrasher, Cerulean and Swainson's Warblers, Baird's and Saltmarcs Sharp-tailed Sparrows, and many more. An essential addition to the birder's bookshelf and suitcase, A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas is the perfect companion book to the many current birdfinding guides.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Lehman began birding in 1966, at the age of nine, while living in the suburbs of New York City. By his mid-teens he was already traveling widely in North America, pursuing his interests in bird identification and distribution and in keeping lists in all the U.S. states and Canadian provinces. He moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1974 to attend the University of California, where he received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Geography and where he subsequently taught in the Geography and Environmental Studies Departments through 1990. During and since that time, he continued his extensive birding travels throughout North America, while he also authored many magazine articles and papers on North American bird distribution and identification. In 1989 he became editor of ABA's Birding, a position he held through 1997. In 1994, he moved to Cape May, New Jersey, where he currently resides. In recent years he has been a principal consultant on a number of popular field guides, most recently as senior map consultant for the National Geographic Society's Field Guide to the Birds of North America (third edition), Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds (East) (fifth edition), and a future edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds. Paul has also been a member of the California and New Jersey Bird Records Committees and is a professional tour guide for Wings, Inc. His passion for exploring the countless birding destinations available throughout North America - particularly migrant and vagrant hot-spots and many sites that are less known and underbirded - continues.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Birding Association
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1878788159
• ISBN 13: 9781878788153
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 508
• Editor: Paul Lehman
• Illustrator: Shawneen Finnegan, Alan Hopkins, Dan Lane, Michael O'Brien, Terry O'Nele, David Sibley, Louise Zemaitis