Good birders don't wear white : 50 tips from North America's top birders

Content: Relinquish control for stress-free bird feeding / Mike O\'Connor --
Turn your backyard into a wildlife sanctuary / Connie Toops --
Open a restaurant: a Maître d\' for the birds / Bavid M. Bird --
Clean your optics: the unbearable brightness of seeing / Bill Thompson III --
Bigger is not better / Clay Sutton --
Choose your wardrobe wisely: good birders don\'t wear white / Sheri Williamson --
Question authority: good birders sometimes wear white / Kenn Kaufman --
Avoid false starts / Jeffrey A. Gordon --
Take field notes / Jessie H. Barry --
Follow these rules to see a Mangrove Cuckoo / Don and Lillian Stokes --
Surrender! (Or at least wave a white flag) / Dave Jasper --
Bird by impression / Kevin Karlson --
Choosing a birding tour carefully / Victor Emanuel --
Hug your tour leader / Judith A Toups --
Think like a migrating bird / Amy K. Hooper --
Don\'t be afraid of two-thirds of the planet: pelagic birding / Steve Howell --
Try the Canadian Great Plains in winter / Paul Kerlinger --
Go birding at night: the final frontier / Ted Floyd --
Birder or bird watcher? You decide / Scott Shalaway --
Linger even after you\'ve listed a bird / John Sill --
Shift your focus from birding to birds / Kevin J. Cook --
Don\'t forget to listen / Louise Zemaitis --
Go beyond identifying birds to identifying with them / Donald Kroodsma --
Don\'t play with firecrackers: where have all tge birdsongs gone? / Lang Elliott --
Become a pod person: the iBirder / Noah Strycker --
Shush and pish / Julie Craves --
Oh behave! / Mel White --
Heed birding\'s traditions and taboos / Wayne R. Petersen --
Play fair when sharing a scope / Peter Alden --
Go birding in bad weather / Bill Schmoker --
Learn about distribution and weather / Paul Lehman --
Use a storm to your advantage / Jeffrey Bouton --
Be a proactive conservationist / Paul J. Baicich --
Make a difference for birds / Scott Weidensaul --
Write it down: making a calendar / Julie Zickefoose --
Learn from your mistakes: how not to hide from birds / Tim Gallagher --
Go digital for bird photography / Arthur Morris --
Dump the gear / Richard Crossley --
Learn by drawing / David sibley Practice seeing / Chuck Hagner --
Don\'t forget the peripherals / Robert A. Braunfield --
If you\'re sure of yourself, stand your grand: between a rock and an owl / John Kricher --
Share your passion: born-again birder / Peter Stangel --
Let birds help you escape to paradise / Stephen Shunk --
Slow down and see more birds: the rule of sandwiches / John Acorn --
Go birding with kids / Alicia Craig --
Introduce children to birds / Laura Erickson --
Work at becoming a good birder (maybe even a great one) / Pete Dunne --
Cultivating good birding practices / Jon L. Dunn --
Recognize true greatness / Richard K. Walton.