Must-Have Dean of the Birdwatchers: A Biography of Ludlow Griscom – Jr. William E. Davis

One of America’s most influential ornithologists, Ludlow Griscom (1890-1959) ushered in the shift to modern birding with binoculars with his conviction that “one need not shoot a bird to know what it was.”
Drawing on the writings of Griscom and his contemporaries, this biography reveals the complex man who popularized birdwatching as a more democratic, less aristocratic alternative to hunting and influenced a generation of notable future “birders,” including Roger Tory Peterson, Joseph J. Hickey, and Allan C…