Completely new edition of an important birders' tool: Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona
Tucson Audubon's updated edition of Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona, its seventh, brings together all the latest information on finding birds in southeast Arizona. This is your best source of detailed information that will help in planning bird watching adventures throughout southeast Arizona.
Why should you and your friends have this book on your shelves, in your cars and in your field vest pockets? The answers are several: to easily access more than 150 birding locations throughout southeast Arizona; to discover where and when to find your target species; to prepare for knowing which birds you'll see where and at what time of year. How could you go birding without it? You'll see more birds if you buy this book, and you'll discover great new places to visit.
You'll find yourself using this book to plan a morning or day of birding or an entire trip. If you are just beginning to bird in southeast Arizona , or if you are a first-time visitor or looking for a new bird watching plan, the “Planning Your Trip” section offers birding ideas for any period from half to many days spent in the area. The book also includes useful background information for birding here, from how to prepare for the climate, weather, and the other species of wildlife to watch for while out birding.
To ease your planning, we have divided the book into 12 birding areas, and you can use the overview map at the back to determine those area(s) where you want to bird. Each of these areas has its own section in the book. It's birding made easy. Each area section begins with a map that highlights the most popular birding locations, with the names of streets, canyons, mountains and other landscape features. Dedicated local birding experts, who are out in the field every day, have provided their expertise and experience for each area. Having the book is like having your own personal expert with you.
We have designed the book to enable you to spend more time birding and less time searching for places or directions. Throughout Tucson Audubon's Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona, the main place names are in bold text. Unlike other bird-finding guides, Tucson Audubon's guide layout makes it easy for you to read about a particular location and then quickly find the directions on how to get there. We have put the driving directions in their own highlighted paragraph immediately after the place description. The Tucson Audubon guide uses a larger typeface and does not cram sentences together to get more text on one page as do some other guides, making it easier to read on the go.
Our book features seasonal bar graphs: these enable you to check the status of any species found in the region during any month. They are simple to use, and contain huge amounts of information which the Arizona Bird Committee works to keep current, and we count ourselves fortunate to have their strong support when providing this information through our book. The checklist is also the most currently available at the time of going to press.
Useful additions in the book for birders include visitor information and accommodation sources, and information on visiting Mexico. Most other publishers have dropped the use of spiral binding because of cost. We have retained this, since it enables you to fold the book back on itself, so you can keep your guide open to your chosen location or bar graph while setting it on a dashboard, car seat or lap.
Local birders of international repute support Tucson Audubon, including Kenn Kaufman, who continues his support by supplying an updated foreword for our new edition of Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona.
Online Addenda to Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona
For this and other great books for birders, visit the Online Audubon Nature Shop, or come to our shop at 300 E. University Blvd in Tucson. Call 629-0510 if you have questions, or would like to make an order over the phone.
