The Golden Plover and Other Birds

The Golden Plover and Other Birds
by Arthur A. Allen
Adopted by
David J. Skorton and Robin L. Davisson
on March 6, 2018
Golden plover

The golden plover and other birds

By Arthur A. Allen. Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., 1939.

This is the second of a series of sketches and life histories of birds told in a unique way—by the birds themselves as "autobiographies." This makes it especially interesting to the young readers for whom it was written, but also contributes valuable information for older naturalists. Author Arthur Allen was a professor of ornithology at Cornell University, which is renowned for its Laboratory of Ornithology. The book is illustrated with 240 of Allen's own photographs, and there are eight color plates by George Miksch Sutton. One of Sutton’s images is used for this entry. This book is part of the collection of the Birds Library at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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