Harry Armistead has reviewed nature books for Library Journal for 53 years, and with Choice Books for College Libraries for 51.  A retired librarian, his book collection includes about 3,600 titles. He's been to all 7 continents, but birds mostly in Maryland and Virginia. He's participated in 327 Christmas Bird Counts and has organized 136 bird counts since 1966 in the Blackwater N.W.R. area. He spends free time on the Chesapeake Bay where his yard list stands at 272 species.
Favorite habitat: salt marshes.