Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year

Useful References for Planning and Carrying Out a Big Year

These are the books that I used to varying degrees; the newer editions, as they become available, are recommended. Adams, Mark T. 2003. Chasing Birds across Texas: A Birding Big Year. Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. American Birding Association. 2002. ABA Checklist—Birds of the Continental United States and Canada. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Cooper, Jerry A. 1995. Bird Finder: A Birder’s Guide to Planning North American Trips. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Dunn, Jon L., and Jonathan Alderfer, eds. 2006. National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. Dunn, Jon L., and Kimball L. Garrett. 1997. Warblers. Peterson Field Guides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Eckert, Kim R. 2002. A Birder’s Guide to Minnesota. Duluth, Minn.: Gavian Guides. Ehrlich, Paul R., David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye. 1988. The Birder’s Handbook—A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster. Fussell III, John O. 1994. A Birder’s Guide to Coastal North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Graham, Gary L. 1992. Texas Wildlife Viewing Guide. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Publishing. Holt, Harold R. 1993. A Birder’s Guide to the Texas Coast. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Howell, Steve N. G., and Jon Dunn. 2007. Gulls of the Americas. Peterson Reference Guides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Howell, Steve N. G., and Sophie Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kemper, John. 1999. Birding Northern California. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Publishing. usefuL references for pLanning and carrying out a big year extreme birder 260 Komito, Sandy. 1999. I Came, I Saw, I Counted. Fairlawn, N.J.: Bergen Publishing. Kutac, Edward A. 1998. Birder’s Guide to Texas. 2nd ed. Houston: Gulf Publishing. Lockwood, Mark W. 2001. Birds of the Texas Hill Country. Austin: University of Texas Press. Lockwood, Mark W., and Brush Freeman. 2004. The Texas Ornithological Society Handbook of Texas Birds. Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. Lockwood, Mark W., William B. McKinney, James N. Paton, and Barry R. Zimmer. 1999. A Birder’s Guide to the Rio Grande Valley. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. NARBA (North American Rare Bird Alert) subscription. Available at http:// www.narba.org. Obmascik, Mark. 2004. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession . New York: Free Press. Opperman, Hal. 2003. A Birder’s Guide to Washington. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Parmeter, John, Bruce Neville, and Doug Emkalns. 2002. New Mexico Bird Finding Guide. Albuquerque: New Mexico Ornithological Society. Peterson, Jim, and Barry R. Zimmer. 1998. Birds of the Trans Pecos. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pranty, Bill. 2005. A Birder’s Guide to Florida. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Rappole, John H., and Gene W. Blacklock. 1994. Birds of Texas: A Field Guide. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. The Roads of Texas. 1999. Fredericksburg: Texas A&M University Cartographics Laboratory and Shearer Publishing. Roberson, Don. 1985. Monterey Birds. Monterey, Calif.: Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society. Rylander, Kent. 2002. The Behavior of Texas Birds. Austin: University of Texas Press. Schram, Brad. 2007. A Birder’s Guide to Southern California. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Seyffert, Kenneth D. 2001. Birds of the Texas Panhandle. W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. Sibley, David A. 2000. National Audubon Society: The Sibley Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. appendix two januarY 261 Stevenson, Mark, ed. 2007. Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona. 7th ed. Tucson , Ariz.: Tucson Audubon Society. Taylor, Richard Cachor. 2005. A Birder’s Guide to Southeastern Arizona. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Great Texas Wildlife Trails, Wildlife Trail Maps. Available at www.tpwd.state.tx.us. Texbirds listserv subscription and archives. Available at http://lists.texbirds. org/texbirds.html. Wauer, Roland. 1996. A Field Guide to Birds of the Big Bend. 2nd ed. Houston: Gulf Publishing. Wauer, Roland H., and Mark Elwonger. 1998. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Publishing. West, George C. 2002. A Birder’s Guide to Alaska. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association. Westrich, LoLo, and Jim Westrich. 1991. Birder’s Guide to Northern California. Houston: Gulf Publishing. uSEFuL rEFErEnCES ...