![]() During the first part of the time I was working on the book, I was leading for WINGS, and then I moved over to Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. Were you leading field trips at that point? Were you being asked about certain birds? Did it spring from your experience?Ī combination of things went into that. ![]() The research was the fun part writing it was a little less so. And I did the first Field Guide to Advanced Birding partly because I was interested in that stuff, so I had the perfect excuse to run around researching things like jaegers and sparrows for several years. ![]() But beyond that, it became a matter of opinion. Everyone will agree on things like Empidonax flycatchers or some of the female flycatchers. Was there agreement on what the difficult species were? So developing expertise on difficult birds took a lot of time, or you had to dig through publications, or you had to know someone who was already an expert and ask them about it. ![]() If you belonged to a bunch of organizations - for example, the American Birding Association had started printing detailed articles on bird identification in their magazine, but aside from that and a few local publications, there weren’t even very many sources for articles. But if you had a challenging bird you were trying to figure out, like an accipiter or an Empidonax flycatcher or something, you had maybe a handful of illustrations in two or three field guides and then you were out of luck. ![]()
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