Is a sketchbook the best field guide? And our Mystery Bird toots his tin horn.
#347: December 4, 2011
Field guide author Ted Floyd offers some intriguing ideas about identifying birds; we feature a bird that only Constitution signers could love; and Mike O'Connor answers a question from a big fan.
#212: April 26, 2009
Our man John "Gadabout" Galluzzo checks in from the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York. Also, a caller makes good use of her field guide in our Mystery Bird Contest, and Mike O'Connor helps—or at least sympathizes with—a listener whose robins are singing at 2 a.m.
#111: May 20, 2007
Today's show offers a potpourri of listener questions and observations by phone and email, while Mike O'Connor offers some sage advice about bird books.
#28: October 9, 2005
Field guide guru and birding legend Kenn Kaufman explains how he's using digitally-enhanced photos in his new field guide; our Tip of the Week on feeding birds; and our resident professor, "Doctor" Rufus Towhee, gives us our Bird Word of the Day.