Collection search - Roger Tory Peterson : Portrait of a Birdwatcher

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: HEAD OFFICE - VIDEOTHEQUE

1987-0381

Film

1978-09-11

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

To millions of people who delight in the serious study of birds the name Roger Tory Peterson evokes a special response, for he is the naturalist-artist most often compared with the great ornithologist John James Audubon. It's a fascinating look at a fascinating man, now aged 70 (1978) who has been painting and photographing wild-life for half a century. Before Peterson published his first book, "A Field Guide to Birds" (1934), North American birds were distinguishable only to trained ornithologists; others saw them as mysterious colourful patterns in treetops or as lumpy grey shapes in marshes if they were noticed at all. <60mn>

English

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