CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS vii
CHAPTER ONE
The Culture of Collecting 9
CHAPTER TWO
Desiderata: Bird Collecting and Community 20
Collecting and Identification Guides 33
CHAPTER THREE
Forging Boundaries, Creating Occupational Space 46
CHAPTER FOUR
Nomenclatural Reform and the Quest for Standards and Stability 74
The “American” Subspecies Concept 79
The AOU and Nomenclatural Reform 85
CHAPTER FIVE
Embracing and Abandoning Bird Protection 102
Grinnell's Audubon Society 117
Abandoning Bird Protection 125
CHAPTER SIX
Protecting Birds, Protecting Ornithologists 127
Dutcher's Push for Protection 128
Renewing the Conservation Commitment 150
CHAPTER SEVEN
Birdwatchers, Scientists, and the Politics of Vision 154
A Field Guide to Birdwatching 155
Constructing Observational Networks 165
Birdwatching, Bird Banding, and the Biological Survey 169
Cooperative Life-History Studies 172
The Problem of Sight Records 175
Palmer's Qualms 180
CHAPTER EIGHT
Reforming American Ornithology 182
Graduate Training in Ornithology 184
Enter Ernst Mayr 190
CONCLUSION 206
NOTES 213
BIBLIOGRAPHY 271
INDEX 315