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A Field Guide to North American Birders : a parody / Margaret Harmon ; [cover and interior art by Margaret Harmon]. - Berkley trade pbk. ed. - New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 2001. - 113 p.
Acknowledgments - Map of North America - Part 1 - Part 2 -Part 3 Part I : Birder-watching Using this guide - Anatomy of a birder - Birder songs and calls - Stages of a birder - Birder Maturation - Attacting Birders to your yard - Identifying birders Part II : Birders described and illustrated Early birder Podilymbus aurora - Worldwide Fulmar Fulmarus terrarum - Blue-shoed Booby Sula erratosa - Great Gracious Heron Ardea suaviloquens - Queen Eider Somateria regina - Family Mergansers Mergus familiellus - Car plovers Charadrius sedentus - Loner Yellowlegs Tringa separata and Silent sandpiper Calidris tacita - Medical tern Sterna medica - Underemployed Raorbill Alca furiosa - Gregarious Eagle Auila amica - Big birder Haliaeetus felix - Thin-skinned hawk Accipiter membrana - Competitive Falcon Falco competitor - Steadfast quail Callipepla fida - Duhrect Dove Zenaida oblibiosa - Greatest roadrunner Geococcyx maximus - Great helpful owl Bubo adiuto - Theorying owl Athene cogitatio - Tomboy swift Chaetura libera - Ruby-lipped hummingbird Archilochus caelestis - Paradoxical woodpecker Melanerpes contrarius - Future Kingbird Tyrannus futurus - Frugal phoebe Sayornis parsimonia - Opinionated Jay Cyanocitta opinionata - Host Wren Campylorhynchus hostus - Saturday morning kinglet Regulus satrapa saturdiurnalia - Audubon's solitaire Myadestes auduboni - Laser-tongued shrikes Lanius acerbus - Essential mockingbird Mimus necessitas - Bavarian waxing Bombycilla elegans - Scope-weaseling Wabler Dendroican turnivora - Paintable bunting Passerina pictura - Well-married towhees Pipilo connubialis - Mystical meadowlark Sturnella mystica - Mouse finch Carpodacus timidus - Soiree Grosbeak Coccothraustes socialis Part III : Support for the serious Birder-watcher Getting serious - Birder-watching equipment - American Birder-watching Society (ABS) Code of Ethics - American birder-watching society decal - American Birder-watching Society's rules for counting birders - A birder-watcher's big year - Prevention of common birder-watching injuries - conservation note - North American checklist of the American Birder-watching society - field notes.
Why watch a bunch of silly birds when you can watch a bunch of silly birdwatchers? That's the basis of this hilarious parody by Margaret Harmon.
0425178358 (pbk.)
9780425178355
2001016174
Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908- Parodies, imitations, etc.
Birds--Humor
Bird watchers--Humor
Bird watching--Humor
818.5407 Har 14
A Field Guide to North American Birders : a parody / Margaret Harmon ; [cover and interior art by Margaret Harmon]. - Berkley trade pbk. ed. - New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 2001. - 113 p.
Acknowledgments - Map of North America - Part 1 - Part 2 -Part 3 Part I : Birder-watching Using this guide - Anatomy of a birder - Birder songs and calls - Stages of a birder - Birder Maturation - Attacting Birders to your yard - Identifying birders Part II : Birders described and illustrated Early birder Podilymbus aurora - Worldwide Fulmar Fulmarus terrarum - Blue-shoed Booby Sula erratosa - Great Gracious Heron Ardea suaviloquens - Queen Eider Somateria regina - Family Mergansers Mergus familiellus - Car plovers Charadrius sedentus - Loner Yellowlegs Tringa separata and Silent sandpiper Calidris tacita - Medical tern Sterna medica - Underemployed Raorbill Alca furiosa - Gregarious Eagle Auila amica - Big birder Haliaeetus felix - Thin-skinned hawk Accipiter membrana - Competitive Falcon Falco competitor - Steadfast quail Callipepla fida - Duhrect Dove Zenaida oblibiosa - Greatest roadrunner Geococcyx maximus - Great helpful owl Bubo adiuto - Theorying owl Athene cogitatio - Tomboy swift Chaetura libera - Ruby-lipped hummingbird Archilochus caelestis - Paradoxical woodpecker Melanerpes contrarius - Future Kingbird Tyrannus futurus - Frugal phoebe Sayornis parsimonia - Opinionated Jay Cyanocitta opinionata - Host Wren Campylorhynchus hostus - Saturday morning kinglet Regulus satrapa saturdiurnalia - Audubon's solitaire Myadestes auduboni - Laser-tongued shrikes Lanius acerbus - Essential mockingbird Mimus necessitas - Bavarian waxing Bombycilla elegans - Scope-weaseling Wabler Dendroican turnivora - Paintable bunting Passerina pictura - Well-married towhees Pipilo connubialis - Mystical meadowlark Sturnella mystica - Mouse finch Carpodacus timidus - Soiree Grosbeak Coccothraustes socialis Part III : Support for the serious Birder-watcher Getting serious - Birder-watching equipment - American Birder-watching Society (ABS) Code of Ethics - American birder-watching society decal - American Birder-watching Society's rules for counting birders - A birder-watcher's big year - Prevention of common birder-watching injuries - conservation note - North American checklist of the American Birder-watching society - field notes.
Why watch a bunch of silly birds when you can watch a bunch of silly birdwatchers? That's the basis of this hilarious parody by Margaret Harmon.
0425178358 (pbk.)
9780425178355
2001016174
Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908- Parodies, imitations, etc.
Birds--Humor
Bird watchers--Humor
Bird watching--Humor
818.5407 Har 14