Ornithologist Jim Berry of Ipswich has updated Charles Wendell Townsend’s “The Birds of Essex County,” including songbirds, marsh birds, seabirds, raptors, and other species that visit our yards, woodlands, marshes, and coastlines. The two-volume set documents the natural history of all the bird species that have ever been positively documented in Essex County, Massachusetts through 2022. In the book, Jim adds his own observations about taxonomy, songs and calls, behavioral characteristics, etc.
The books are available in paperback or Kindle editions. The author, Jim Berry will generously donate all proceeds from the books to Essex County Greenbelt.
Jim Berry has been active in the Nest Record Program of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology since 1975 and coordinated the fieldwork in Essex County for the second Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas project. His Affiliations include the Nuttall Ornithological Club and the Association of Field Ornithologists, on whose councils Jim has served, and the American Birding Association, and is a former president of the Essex County Ornithological Club.
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