Summary
Ten years after Roger Tory Peterson's death, his unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the world to observe and record nature. Whether it is in writing about the time when his boat ca... Full description
- On Audubon and those confusing warblers
- What are you really?
- A letter to Lars Jonsson (after the 1984 Birdathon)
- Return to the Pribilofs
- "Bwana Ndege": return to Kenya
- Ruffs and reeves
- Vulture vigils on five continents
- Return to the Serengeti
- Florida's hot spots
- The Maine story
- The peregrine story
- A night in a channel lighthouse [St. Catherine's Light on the English Channel]
- Orgy on Delaware Bay [laughing gulls]
- Finding the ivory-billed woodpecker
- Broley, the eagle man
- The cattle egret
- High seas in a rowboat
- Deceiving the experts
- Memories of Sir Peter Scott
- A bar in Botswana
- Immortal Audubon
- capsized by a rogue wave
- Memories of Manhattan
- Ecotourism: the new buzzword
- Long after Columbus
- Memories of Ludlow Griscom
- The Festival of the Cranes
- Introduced species
- Seventy years behind the camera
- Extinction is forever
- RTP's perspective: birding today
- Wings behind the once iron curtain
- Heath Hens and Attwater's
- The Roger Tory Peterson Institute
- The legend of Lars-Eric Lindblad
- An update from the cedars
- Tornadoes of tree swallows - Isla Raza
- Ghosts in the Bronx
- A short history of Hawk Mountain
- American wildlife painting
- My evolution as a bird artist.