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Raptor ID Happy Hour with Crossley & Sullivan – Friday 6:00pm

March 22, 2013 by Donna 2 Comments

What are you doing this Friday evening? Before you start plotting out your weekend birding strategy, consider joining Richard Crossley and Brian Sullivan for Raptor ID Happy Hour, a conversation about North American raptors, at 6pm tonight, March 22nd. Crossley and Sullivan are the co-authors of The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors, published this week by Princeton University Press. You may remember Mike’s post What is a Black Hawk? that kicked off the Raptor Blog Tour celebrating the book’s publication. Well, Princeton University Press has also been offering an ultimate Sweepstakes prize (enter NOW!), and this live happy hour web event.

We are promised that Richard and Brian will share their raptor identification and photography secrets and discuss the design, layout and purpose of their latest photographic guide. So, bring your own spirits, emotional and liquid, and be a part of this unique web event!

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Written by Donna

Having been attached to books all her life, Donna Lynn Schulman is thrilled to be engaged in a passion that requires fealty to an information artifact called a “field guide.” A former labor educator and labor relations library director at two large universities, Donna also reviewed books for Library Journal for 15 years (totaling over 100 titles), and has contributed articles on to academic journals and monographs. She wrote her first birding book review for the Queens County Bird Club’s News & Notes, which she formerly edited, and also reviews books for Birding magazine. Donna discusses birding books with Nate Swick and other members of the Birding Book Club on the American Birding Association Podcast several times a year, including the popular Best Birding Books of The Year. When she is not birding in Queens or working on her nature photography, Donna travels to Los Angeles, where she attempts to turn her granddaughter into a birder.

2 Comments

Kayleen Kott March 25, 2013 at 2:00 pm

Sorry to miss your ID happy hour on Mar 22. You posted this on Mar 22. Too late for me to make arrangements to participate. Is that your usual protocol to announce so closed to events?
Kayleen
Donna March 25, 2013 at 2:51 pm

Kayleen, the Raptor ID Happy Hour was sponsored by Princeton University Press, as part of their celebration of the publication of the Crossley ID Guide: Raptors. As friends of PUP, we thought we would help publicize this event for those birders who might have read about it earlier in the month on the PUP Birds and Natural History Blog, http://blog.press.princeton.edu/category/birds-and-natural-history/, or on PUP’s Facebook page. I know, I often read about events well-publicized in advance, and say to myself, ‘I really want to do this,’ and then forget on the day of the event. Sometimes, even when I write it into my datebook! We thought, there will be birders tired after a long, hard week of work (and birding), who will come home and need a reminder about the Internet Happy Hour.

You can read about additional events featuring the Raptors guide and its authors on the PUP blog, plus a free ebook with selections from the book. And, we will be reviewing it in the near future.