I have everyone know what is a bird watching means, what do you know when this started and who started it? Well I came across a article which I thought of sharing you friends !
The hobby of bird watching only began to become popular in the early 1900s, with the development of improved binoculars that could be easily carried. Prior to that, most information about birds could only be gathered by shooting them, to study them up close. The first extensive effort to portray birds in their natural habitat was made by John J. Audubon, a largely self-taught ornithologist who painted nearly 500 bird species and produced them in a book called Birds of America. The National Audubon Society was named for the naturalist, who was born on this date in 1785. A product of the Junior Audubon program was Roger Tory Peterson. The young bird lover took to making sketches of distinguishing characteristics of every new bird he encountered. These were eventually published in his A Field Guide to Birds.
Quote:"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children." — John J. Audubon
