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 newspaper
columns, Green details more than sixty varieties of birds common to
southern gardens, fields, and woods. Quotations, poems, and anecdotes
complement the descriptions of each species and help to make the book
accessible even to novice nature lovers. In a new introduction and
appendix, Eloise Potter highlights Green's enduring contribution to
nature study and brings the book's scientific information up to date.