 
Enjoy this celebration of birding with great food, music, and art while helping the ABA help birds and birders! At this afternoon party, we will announce the species, and unveil the painting of the 2020 ABA Bird of the Year, by Chicago icon and prominent American artist Tony Fitzpatrick. Click here for more info and tickets
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A review by Patricia Paladines and Carl Safina Ospreys: The Revival of a Global Raptor by Alan Poole Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 220 pages, hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14921 When it comes to us and Ospreys, it’s deep and personal. Around 1970, a neighbor took an adolescent Carl to a secret [read more…] A review by Nick Minor The Birders: A Melodic Journey through Northern Colombia by Gregg Bleakney WhereNext, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y2gwr5dq As a birder, a communicator, and more simply, a person who just loves a good story, I’m always elated to find media that succeeds at what should be a simple task: depicting birding as birders see [read more…] A review by Lance Tanino Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawaii, by Daniel Lewis Yale University Press, 2018 320 pages, hardcover ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14862 Belonging on an Island takes us on an amazing historical journey, laying out a feast for connoisseurs of Hawaiian natural history and any reader interested [read more…] A review by Laura Kammermeier A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration, by Kenn Kaufman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 282 pages, hardcover ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14936 Kenn Kaufman’s Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration is a deeply personal look at the phenomenon of bird migration, presented in [read more…] A review by Dominic Mitchell Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines, by Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson Christopher Helm, 2018 2 volumes–1,281 pages, boxed hardcover ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14873 Birders in Europe and the adjacent areas of North Africa and the Middle East have been well served with ornithological literature over the years. In particular, [read more…] A review by Frank Izaguirre Mrs. Moreau’s Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names, by Stephen Moss Faber & Faber, 2018 368 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14980 Birders love talking about bird names. Who among us hasn’t scrolled through the new AOS proposals just to see what the most absurd name change proposal was, [read more…] A review by Caitlin Kight A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing, by Richard Smyth Elliott and Thompson, 2017 208 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14983 Between my sophomore and junior years in college, I worked as a field ornithologist for the Institute for Bird Populations (IBP). I had been [read more…] #copyright-container { overflow: hidden; margin: 0px 0 10px 0; } #copyright-container>* { width: 100%; float: left; margin: 0; } #copyright-container>#copyright-container-p { margin-left: -100%; background-color: #ebebeb; width: 100%; } #copyright-container:after { content: “”; display: table; clear: both; } A review by Knut Eisermann Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, [read more…] A review by Capper Nichols Mozart’s Starling, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Little, Brown, and Company, 2017 288 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14944 Out in the California desert, a dozen starlings perched in the branches of a spindly honey mesquite. The tree grew out of a concrete island at a roadside oasis, [read more…] |
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“Ask Rick Wright”—Thoughts on Being Birderly
A quasi-review by Ted Floyd
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America, by Rick Wright
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
434 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14934
As I was sitting down to write this not-exactly-a-book-review, one of my kids asked me a question about the mathematical details of the orbit of the moon. I [read more…]