Birds of the South: Permanent and Winter Birds

The late Charlotte Hilton Green was an early and influential champion of the Tar Heel state’s natural environment, and her popular weekly column, 'Out-of-Doors in Carolina,' appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer for forty-two years (1932–74). A classic in the field of popular nature writing, Birds of the South was originally published by UNC Press in 1933, preceding by a year Roger Tory Peterson’s landmark volume, A Field Guide to the Birds.

In this engaging collection of her early newsp...