The publisher is William R. Parks - www.wrparks.com The books are printed by CreateSpace. To receive a free catalog via email in a PDF file attachment with sample chapters from our books listed at www.wrparks.com send your request via email to: wparkspublishing@aol.com This B & W paperback edition is available for $9.95. The color paperback edition is available for $24.95. The Kindle eBook edition is available in color for $2.99. For over twenty years Gerry Rising has been writing a weekly "Nature Watch" column for The Buffalo News. A collection of some of his columns is now available in...

Here is a book for birdwatchers who wish to go beyond field identification. This wide-ranging essay collection, drawn from the author's avocational interest in ornithology, explores many avian topics that would otherwise be found in a shelf of resources. Here, for example, is ornithological history from Audubon and Wilson to Peterson and Sibley; information about extinct species - passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and Eskimo curlew - and the questionable status of the ivory-billed woodpecker; birding episodes from Baghdad to Korea by way of Mexico; and strange field encounters with bald...