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You May Need a New Field Guide…

With the new Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America due out August 28th, it may be time to replace your old guide. If you have a vintage first edition Peterson, or your Sibley looks the opposite as our tattered copy, you may not need a new guide, but hey, there’s always room for one more.

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  1. Patrick says:

    Haha! Great one! What if mine is written on stone tablets? Should I get a new one? It doesn’t get dog-eared…

    Posted on: August 27, 2008 @ 8:02 am

  2. The Birdfreak Team says:

    Patrick – Hilarious!! It may not get dog-eared but oh the pain if it gets dropped on your foot.

    Posted on: August 27, 2008 @ 8:38 am

  3. Lana says:

    *LOL* It seems I don’t need a new field guide right now. I’ll definitely keep this in mind for the future, however.

    Posted on: August 27, 2008 @ 2:13 pm

  4. Rick Wright says:

    I’ve often thought that the best medium for a field guide would be the Magic Slate: taxonomic changes, painting errors, distribution changes–all taken care of, presto, just by peeling back the top layer!
    r
    PS: I hope I’m not the only one out there who remembers Magic Slates!

    Posted on: August 27, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

  5. Daniel says:

    jajajaja great post, fortunately my field guides havent gone swimming yet, just my camera, binocular, cell phone, scope you name it….but not the field guides.

    Posted on: August 28, 2008 @ 9:50 am

  6. Ken Schneider says:

    I do have a first edition Peterson that my mother bought for me secondhand at $2.75 when I was about nine years old. A bit tattered, indeed. It stayed in pretty good shape despite being dropped in the mud and rained upon.

    I just put up a few pictures of it on this blog entry (I don’t do HTML):

    blog(dot)rosyfinch(dot)com/?p=187

    Posted on: September 11, 2008 @ 3:08 pm

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