The original field guide. (Roger Tory Peterson, author of 'A Field Guide to the Birds')(Obituary)(Brief Article)

From: Newsweek | Date: August 12, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

IT IS ONE OF THE SUBLIMEST THRILLS nature offers, to see a shape flitting through the branches ("a very tiny, slender mite, smaller even than a Chicadee, blue-gray above and whitish below ..."), hear a call ("a thin peevish zpee") and, paging frantically through the more than 700 species and subspecies listed in "A Field Guide to the Birds," finding that this description precisely matches that of the bluegray gnatcatcher. A bird, a wild creature, subject to no human laws, grubbing out a meager living from bugs that not even most other birds would bother eating, somehow manages to ...

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