In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson, with manuscript and watercolor paintings in hand, went looking for a publisher for the bird identification book he had created. He knocked on doors. No. No. No. No. Then ...

While the original book was small enough to fit inside a jacket or pants pocket, the new version is a more substantial 6-by-9 inches, combining the Eastern and Western field guides, which were ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), longtime publisher of the Peterson Field Guide series of nature guides, today announced a major, multi-product licensing arrangement with ...

Roger Tory Peterson died 12 years ago but a brand new "Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America" has just been published. It is a superb book and Peterson himself would have been pleased. As ...

About the book: Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short of memorizing each bird’s repertoire, it’s difficult to sort through them all. Now, ...

A new approach to bird sounds -- How birds produce sounds -- Visualizing sound -- The naming of bird sounds -- The biology of bird sounds -- Recording bird sounds and making spectrograms -- Birds by ...