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 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…] A review by Knut Eisermann Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, by Andrew C. Vallely and Dale Dyer Princeton University Press, 2018 584 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14874P Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America, by Jesse Fagan and Oliver Komar 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…] A review by Manuel Lerdau The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us, by Richard Prum Doubleday 2017 428 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14815 Rick Prum’s The Evolution of Beauty has been reviewed many times in both the popular and the professional scientific press. My [read more…] A review by Chris Loscalzo Birding in Connecticut, by Frank Gallo Wesleyan University Press 2018 488 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14860 With its temperate climate, extensive coastline, and large tracts of open space ranging from mature forests to grassy fields, Connecticut is a superb place to see a great variety of birds [read more…] A review by Julia Zarankin The Meaning of Birds, by Simon Barnes Pegasus Books 2018 208 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14938 The first time I went birding, I ended up in a park on the western edge of Toronto face to face with a flotilla of ducks. According to my fellow birdwatchers, we [read more…] 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…] 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…] |
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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…]