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Index
Cover
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Backyard Birding, Front-Seat Adventure
WING BAR: Birder or Bird Watcher?
Preferred Foods of Some Common Seed-eating Backyard Birds
WING BAR: Bird-feeding Myths
WING BAR: Distribution (Why Birds Are Where They Are)
WING BAR: Glass and Tragedy
WING BAR: Planting to Attract Backyard Birds—The Experts’ Choice
Select Bird Attracting Plants for Assorted North American Regions
WING BAR: How to Steal the Cardinal from Your Neighbor’s Feeder
TALE SPOT: Chiricahua Mountains Morning
Summary of Bird Box Specifications for Select Species
2. The Tools of the Trade—Binoculars and a Field Guide
TALE SPOT: The Binoculars with Arms and Legs
TALE SPOT: Single-Eye Solution
TALE SPOT: Less Power, More Performance
TALE SPOT: Good Glass and the Quality Gradient
TALE SPOT: First Guide Frustration
TALE SPOT: The Take-Home of Learning to See Critically
WING BAR: Birding Apps and Recordings
TALE SPOT: Good Birders Don’t Wear White
3. The Fundamentals of Birding
WING BAR: The Subject Is Sewage Ponds
WING BAR: Getting Between the Lines
TALE SPOT: Bryan and the Red-faced Feeder Bird
TALE SPOT: Learning to See: Gulls versus Terns
4. Resources—Dipping into the Pool of Knowledge
WING BAR: Solo versus Social
WING BAR: A Beginning Birder’s Guide to Field-Trip and Bird-Tour Survival
WING BAR: Birding in the Digital Age
WING BAR: Choosing a Bird-Tour Company
5. Expanding Horizons—Finding and Facing New Challenges
WING BAR: ED (HD) and APO Lenses—What It Means, What It’s Worth
WING BAR: Sifting Through Sound
WING BAR: The Perfect Fallout
WING BAR: Little-Known North American Birding Hot Spots
TALE SPOT: Shorebird Summer
6. Tips to Better Birding
TALE SPOT: Missing the Crane for the Gulls
7. Ethics and Responsibilities
WING BAR: The Honored Badge of our Order
WING BAR: Choosing Your Allies
Glossary of Terms
ABA Code of Ethics
Bibliography
Index
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