Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we promote other areas of conservation as well. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Happy 100th Birthday – Roger Tory Peterson

August 28, 2008
Article in: Birding

A hundred years ago, Roger Tory Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. We hope that Roger Tory Peterson Month will continue his memory in future years to come.

Roger Tory Peterson Month has been a fun time for us. We reviewed (and tested) the new Peterson Field Guide, read a few books about his life, one by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal and one by Douglas Carlson, and talked about All Things Reconsidered, a book Roger Tory Peterson wrote about his birding adventures.

Peterson in the field

Photo courtesy of Houghton Mifflin

We wish we could have met Roger Tory Peterson personally. Our knowledge of him comes only from books and the memories of others; for which we are thankful.

Here is to the hope that there will be a 100 more years of bird conservation. His mission is also ours as we work to conserve birds everywhere. Happy birthday Roger Tory Peterson!!

Dakota Using Swarovski Optics
Next Generation Bird Conservationist – Dakota

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Who Was Roger Tory Peterson?

August 28, 2007
Article in: Birding

Roger Tory Peterson was born on August 28, 1908 in Jamestown, New York.rtp.jpg
He not only studied and appreciated birds, he worked hard to protect them and educated others to do the same. Since his first publication in 1934 of A Field Guide To The Birds, Roger Tory Peterson made birding simple enough for every person.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble. –Roger Tory Peterson

He is so right and this quote is the base for our whole idea of conservation and birding, along with a sense of hope for the future. We must have hope that not everything is lost and never develop the attitude of “Why bother?”

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life. –RTP

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. –RTP

If we could pick the holidays, today would be Roger Tory Peterson Day, and all would be able to take the day off and go birding!

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