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 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…] 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…] 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…] 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…] 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…] |
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