A couple of years ago I wrote a column in Winging It about some of my favorite non-birding books for birders. Commentators in a followup blog post generated many more great book titles that appeal to travel and unfeathered natural science topics of interest to those who pursue wild birds.
Just in time for [read more...] A review by Rick Wright A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction, by Joel Greenberg Bloomsbury, 2014 304 pages, $26.00—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14322 On May 26, 1910, Mr. Charles H. Jones of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, testified before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: A review by Jennifer Rycenga Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution, by Edward C. Beedy, Edward R. Pandolfino, and Keith Hansen University of California Press, 2013 xiv + 430 pages, $39.95—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14156 The Sierra Nevada’s place in natural history and ornithology is [read more...] A review by Jen Brumfield The Sibley Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition, by David Allen Sibley Knopf, 2014 599 pages, $39.95—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books SIBL2 I have 1,500 words to review the new, second edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds. 1,500 words. I’ve already used 20. I don’t have [read more...] 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...] |
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