Word: idahoan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risible oddity to an often rugged sport. The trouble was an embarrassment of riches. A Yankee or Floridian could count on identifying any bird he saw with nothing more cumbersome than his binoculars and a 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...