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Birding the Townsend Trail

Two centuries after the birth of ornithologist and explorer John Kirk Townsend, his western path still beckons
By Barbara Mearns
By Richard Mearns
Published: June 19, 2009
"Birding the Townsend Trail," by Barbara and Richard Mearns. Birder's World, August 2009, pages 24-25.
British naturalists Barbara and Richard Mearns, authors of Biographies for Birdwatchers (1988), Audubon to Xantus (1992), and other books, describe the refuges, grasslands, monuments, natural areas, and other sites where birdwatchers can still find Chestnut-collared Longspur, Lark Bunting, Mountain Plover, and many other species that John Kirk Townsend, Thomas Nuttall, Nathaniel Wyeth, and their party saw during their famous 1834 expedition through the American West.
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