Birding Techniques

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Birders (by Jeffrey E. Patterson)

How to be an Explorer of the World (by Keri Smith)

Tips from Master Birder Students Seattle 2018 (Seattle Audubon Society)

Bird Glossary (by USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center)

Birding by Impression (by Kevin Karlson)

Bird Census & Survey Techniques (by Richard D. Gregory, David W. Gibbons, and Paul F. Donald)

Estimating Large Flocks (excerpt from Texbirds 2010)

Helping Others Find Birds (by Tom Stephenson)

Noticing: How to Take a Walk in the Woods (by Adam Frank)

Habitats of Texas (by TPWD)


History of Birding

Naturalists Handout

Naturalists Timeline

History of Field Guides

History of ABA (Wilds)

History of Birding Magazine (Floyd)

History of Ornithology (2009) (Birkhead)

Peterson — In Memorium (1998) (Drennan)

Ted Parker — The Man, the Myth and the Legend (2013)n (Carlburg)

Hemenway and Hall Against Bird Slaughter (2020) (Hatfield)

Conant on Couch (1968) (Conant)

Bailey — Meeting Spring Half Way (1916) (Bailey)

History of Birding in Texas

TOS History First Decade (Casto)

TOS Early History of Ornithology in Texas (Casto)

The Bird Lady of Texas (MaCracken)

Articles on The Bird Life of Texas, Oberholser & Kincaid (McCracken, Booth)

Birding History in Austin

Birds of Austin 1925 (by George Finlay Simmons)

Tallichet: A Day in the Texas Woods, 1892 (by J.H. Tallichet)

Tallichet: Walk Prospectus (by Chuck Sexton)

Tallichet: Walk Redux (by Chuck Sexton)


Audubon

Myth of Audubon (Nobles)

Audubon Smithsonian Magazine (Rhodes)

Secret Life of Audubon (Langston)

Audubon’s Bird of Washington: Unravelling the Fraud that Launched The Birds of America (Halley)


Birds Named After People

List of Birds Named After People

Birds Named After People (Blairbirding)

Scientists Should Stop Naming Species after Awful People (Shiffman)

How Certain Birds Got Their Names (Lund)


Passenger Pigeon

Passenger Pigeon Timeline (Birdwatching Magazine)

Passenger Pigeon Graph

Passenger Pigeon: Like Meteors from Heaven (Greenburg & Condon)