Learning your shorebirds
TWO DISPARATE OCCURRENCES spawned this column. The first was the completion of my part of the manuscript for my next book with Kevin Karlson — The Shorebirds of North America.
Yes, there is a book by this title authored by the late Peter Matthiessen and published in 1967. We, Kevin and I, simply tired of waiting for an update on this extraordinary bird group and superlative treatment, so we decided to do it ourselves, a decision bolstered by Kevin’s thousands of stellar shorebird images.
Buried in his hard drive, the images
