By Birding Book Reviews, on February 18, 2019
A review by Sanford Sorkin
North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring, by Bruce M. Beehler
Smithsonian Books, 2018
264 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14864
Many books tell interesting stories; very few inspire us. Bruce Beehler’s North on the Wing corrects any simplistic notions we may have [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on February 14, 2019
A review by Sandra Paci
The Wall of Birds: One Planet / 243 Families / 375 Million Years
by Jane Kim with Thayer Walker
Harper Design 2018
224 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14911
This profusely illustrated book tells the fascinating story behind the artist and scientific illustrator Jane Kim’s creation of a [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on February 13, 2019
A review by Caitlin Kight
Woodpecker, by Gerard Gorman
Reaktion Books, 2018
180 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14922
Gerard Gorman’s Woodpecker is the latest volume in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series, a handsome collection of lavishly illustrated books that explore the natural and cultural history of a range of iconic animals. By examining [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on December 5, 2018
A review by Lori Potter
Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds, by Bernd Brunner, translated by Jane Billinghurst
Greystone Books, 2017
292 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14791
The book jacket of Birdmania advises that its contents are “quirky.” Soon enough, we learn that this disclosure is not misleading. The book’s quirkiness [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on December 3, 2018
A review by Rob Fergus
The New Neotropical Companion, by John Kricher
Princeton University Press, 2017
432 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14727 or Amazon.com
The American tropics host some of the world’s most beautiful and charismatic birds. But birding there can be tough. Dazzling looks at radiant displays of iridescence may come [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on October 25, 2018
A review by Marcia OBara
Birding Southeast Arizona App, by Tucson Audubon Society and the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
For Apple iOS and Android Devices
Available for purchase and download at TucsonAudubon.org
I live in Southeast Arizona, and I love birding here. For years our go-to guide and constant companion has been Tucson Audubon’s spiral-bound [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on October 23, 2018
A review by Corey C. Husic
Urban Raptors: Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities, edited by Clint W. Boal and Cheryl R. Dykstra
Island Press, 2018
320 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14851
Humans have long lived in proximity to raptors, with stories dating back centuries of Red Kites pestering [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on September 12, 2018
A review by Dragan Simić
The Birder’s Guide to Africa, by Michael Mills
Go-Away-Birding, 2017
544 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14785
“What happened?”
“He psyched me out. Made me seasick. I think he thinks I’m doing a Big Year. That is hardcore.”
“Are you doing a Big Year?”
“No. You?”
Me? [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on September 11, 2018
A review by Charlotte Wasylik
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th ed., by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
National Geographic Society, 2017
591 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books NGFG7
Released last autumn, after a six-year wait, the new, seventh edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to [read more…]
By Birding Book Reviews, on June 21, 2018
A review by Laura Kammermeier
One More Warbler: A Life with Birds, by Victor Emanuel with S. Kirk Walsh
University of Texas Press, 2017
273 pages—hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14740
The first time Victor Emanuel flew over unbroken tropical forest was in 1969, when he and John Rowlett took a flight [read more…]
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