[texbirds] Simmons bird book and texas birding on the net
- From: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: 4 Texbirds Maillist <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:40:47 -0500
The book has not been uploaded to the Biodiversity Heritage Library which
currently has 2,813 bird books available to download for free. It is one of
the great wildlife sources out there. Their hope is to have all old
wildlife books scanned and available as many are found only in very limited
numbers in stacks not open to the public.
Normal copyright for the Simmons book has expired so an institution could
scan and upload the book. Seems like a good UT gesture since they printed
and have not reprinted it.
So if you like pictures of texas hummingbirds, you can download Gould's
Humminbird monograph and have very good scans of the his art work.
Other texas bird goodies available are Strecker: Birds of Texas which was
basically the first state checklist and Audubon's journal of his texas trip.
And lots of books. If you lost your old Reed bird book you can get a copy
here. And vast amounts of stuff about bats, toads, plants etc. A general
search of Texas has 100 entries. There are many many travel books going way
back. Got started reading a book on the west indies from about 1650 that
had a good bit of general natural life mixed in with the cannibals. Stuff
not in any history book I have read. Or how to do rice farming 100 years
ago on the coastal bend.
Next to read will be Marcy's 1854 expedition through Texas which appears to
have lots of good information about the state of the state and he was a
cousin somewhat removed too.
Also a couple of good sources about Texas fever, tick lines, cattle dips,
Gunsmoke stories etc and why you really do not have good birding trails on
the Santa Margarita Ranch anymore.
Great internet stop for retirement.
--
Joseph C. Kennedy
on Buffalo Bayou in West Houston
Josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx
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