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| The Ardent Birder: On the Craft of Birdwatching | 
| Authors: Todd Newberry, Gene Holtan, Andrew Todd Newberry
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 481409
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 214
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 4.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1580087159
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.07234
EAN: 9781580087155
ASIN: 1580087159
Publication Date: October 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Future Classic May 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book will be a future classic for birders. I read this book twice within a few days. I never do this! I started birding a few months ago and reached number 99 yesterday. Todd's book has been a great help for me.
 A pleasant book for the intermediate birder November 29, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The hard core will find little new in this book, but intermediate birders looking to improve their skills will enjoy and profit from the short essays. The author's style is easy and pleasant, reminding me a bit of Milton White's low-key (if not low-affect!) "Listen, the Red-eyed Vireo," a work Newberry cites several times. The final section, on leading successful bird trips, is likely to be the most practically useful (perhaps even to more advanced birders), but the sections on field craft can also be read with profit by the ambitious and the befuddled. The central section's "philosophical interlude" is no less well written, but not as incisive as, say, Levine's "Lifebirds" or Alan Powers's fine "Birdtalk."
I was particularly pleased to see the American Birding Association and its publications praised and recommended.
A good book for birders on the cusp of advancement!
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