A review by Luke Tiller Looking for the Goshawk, by Conor Mark Jameson Bloomsbury, 2013 368 pages, $26.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13890 Mark Conor Jameson is best known for his well-received Silent Spring Revisited, a review of the highs and lows of the conservation movement since Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking work. In his latest [read more...] A review by Drew Weber Birds of Central Pennsylvania, by Nick Bolgiano and Greg Grove Stone Mountain Publishing, 2010 262 pages, $20.00—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13347 When I moved to State College in the summer of 2010 for graduate school, I was excited about birding central Pennsylvania, which has extensive forest and many [read more...] A review by Amar Ayyash Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight, by Ken Behrens and Cameron Cox Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 xi + 602 pages, $35—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13931 Perhaps the most challenging form of birding, the identification of birds in flight from a distance is a [read more...] A review by Robert O. Paxton Birds and People, by Mark Cocker, with photographs by David Tipling Random House, 2013 592 pages, $65.00—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14189 This sumptuous volume is a bit like a double chocolate sundae. It’s too rich for one sitting, but you can’t stop eating. It explores a sweeping [read more...] A review by Rick Wright Ordinary Extraordinary Junco, by Jonathan Atwell, Steve Burns, and Ellen Ketterson Junco Project, 2013 $5.00–DVD, 1:30 Available for purchase or free download Look outside. It is winter as I write, and over much of the ABA Area—and well south into Middle America, too—there’s a good chance that your eye [read more...] A review by Julia Zarankin Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me? More Answers to Common and Not-So-Common Questions about Birds and Birding, by Mike O’Connor Beacon Press, 2013 185 pages, $12.95—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14114 Have you ever wondered where cardinals got their name? Or whether woodpeckers take baths? Or [read more...] A review by Tom Johnson Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Pterodroma Petrels, by Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher Scilly Pelagics, 2013 316 pages and two DVDs, $69.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14180 Few birds are as amazingly tough, enigmatic, beautiful, athletic, and rare as the gadfly petrels. The Multimedia Identification Guide to [read more...] A review by Bertie Gregory Birds of British Columbia: A Photographic Journey, by Glenn Bartley Heritage House, 2013 156 pages, $35.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14194 When I open a book by one of North America’s leading wildlife photographers, I expect [read more...] A review by Joy M. Kiser Birds’ Nests of the World, by Mamoru Suzuki Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 2013 72 pages, $29.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14142 For Japan’s beloved children’s book illustrator Mamoru Suzuki, the discovery of a bird’s nest near his home on the Izu Peninsula in 1986 was a metamorphic [read more...] Still looking for a great present for the young birder in your life? I recently asked a group of young birders what they had on their wish lists this year. Read on to see what they had to say, as well as see some of my favorite things. Books I think you’d be hard-pressed to [read more...] |
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