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...week, at any time of the year, such dedicated birders journey out to the woods, thickets and swamps with binoculars at the ready. Their aim is simple: to enjoy the pure outdoorsy fun of spotting birds. The rarer the find, the prouder the birder, who rushes to seek out the nearest fellow birdsman to report his triumph. Most of these birders are among the 235,000 members of Audubon societies, which this year sent out about 10,000 people in platoons to take the 1961 bird census in 50 states. Each group covered a specific sector with a 15-mile...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
...Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...
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...