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...least one corroborating witness, is simple: binoculars, a copy of Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds, and a car to enable them to cover a greater variety of habitats quickly. Thus, beginning at dawn, 20 members of Florida's Pelican Island Audubon Society raced through the boondocks south of Cape Kennedy to cover a 15-mile-wide circle of fresh-water marshes, piny woods and citrus groves; whenever their cars stopped, their binoculars popped up and down like yo-yos. They quit early at dusk, satisfied at having spotted 129 species, including such rarities...
...where the stealthier spotters bellied through the wet marsh grass as if sneaking up on a machine-gun nest. Though they found a number of rare birds, they were disappointed at total counts, which were as small as 100 species. And in Illinois, 50 members of the Champaign County Audubon Society slogged through mud and rain, uphill and down, for views of herons and chimney swifts, wood ducks and Blackburnian warblers-and a day's total...
...dogged were the birders that even the birds far at sea were under surveil lance. Nearly 100 members of California's Golden Gate Audubon Society set out in a three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black...
Room 1026, the Audubon Suite, is occupied by Kevin McCarthy and Catherine Spaak, a hotel tycoon and the ornamental mistress he has purchased with his profits. A pious fraud who prays before he preys, McCarthy is determined by deal or steal to make the charming old hotel of the title just one more link in his chain. In an attempt to corrupt Hotel Manager Rod Taylor, McCarthy shamelessly offers him Spaak as a bribe. Rod likes, she likes. In the end, the villain misses a mistress...
BIRDS OF THE NORTHERN FOREST, paintings by J. F. Lansdowne, text by John A. Livingston. 247 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $20. Paintings of birds to rank with those of Gould and Audubon distinguish this sumptuous volume devoted to Canadian birds, most of them, of course, with dual citizenship in the U.S. Lansdowne is an artist who gratifies the ornithologist with his precision and detail, and he charms the print fancier with his grace and delicacy of tone. Worth the price of 30 bushels of sunflower seeds...