Word: birder
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...single pocket volume, Peterson's Eastern Field Guide to the Birds. An Idahoan or Californian had the same assurance with Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds. But Texas is where, ornithologically, East meets West, and North America meets near-tropical Mexico. The conscientious Texas birder needed both Peterson books -or all three volumes of Richard H. Pough's Audubon Bird Guides-and by the time he had riffled all the pages, the exciting "lifer'' (i.e., a new bird) had probably flown away still unidentified...
Five years ago, the Texas Game and Fish Commission asked Birder Peterson to do something about the situation, put up $60,000 and now can boast the best bird guide in the Western Hemisphere (but for three years the book can be bought only from the Game and Fish Commission; money must be sent with the order to Austin, Texas-no C.O.D.s). The Texas guide demonstrates once again why the Peterson volumes are rarae aves in the book trade. When the first modest edition of the Eastern volume appeared in 1934, it sold an unexpected 7,000 copies...
...only guan in North America), the roadrunner (a giant, snake-killing cuckoo) and the jagana (a long-toed "lily trotter"). Altogether, there are 487 different "basic species" which occur regularly, plus 55 accidentals (recorded fewer than five times), for a grand total of 542 species. This leaves California, notes Birder Peterson, "a poor second with nearly 100 fewer specimens...