A review by Rick Wright A Message from Martha, by Mark Avery Bloomsbury, 2014 304 pages, $22—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14424 Pilgrims of the Air, by John Wilson Foster Notting Hill, 2014 230 pages, £14.99—hardcover The Passenger Pigeon, by Errol Fuller Princeton University Press, 2014 184 pages, $29.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14406 Seventy years ago, Aldo Leopold famously [read more…] A review by Matt Pelikan The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Vermont, edited by Rosalind B. Renfrew University Press of New England, 2013 576 pages, $75—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13980 The Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas 2, edited by Joan Walsh and Wayne Petersen Scott and Nix, 2013 898 pages, $24.99—eBook The phrase [read more…] A review by Paul A. Johnsgard Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, Fourth Edition, by Guy Baldassarre Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 1,027 pages in two volumes, $69.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14400 In 1942, the American Wildlife Institute published The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, a modest-sized book of 474 [read more…] A review by Noel Snyder Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide, by Gerard Gorman Firefly Books, 2014 528 pages, $49.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14365 Gerard Gorman’s stunningly illustrated Woodpeckers of the World provides basic information on all of the species in the family Picidae, including the woodpeckers, sapsuckers, flickers, flamebacks, piculets, [read more…] A review by Julia Zarankin Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird, by Tim Birkhead Walker and Company, 2012 265 pages, $25.00—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13858 In his famous essay “What Is it Like to Be a Bat?,” the philosopher Thomas Nagel argues that the nature of consciousness makes it impossible [read more…] A Review by Al Schirmacher Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in English-language Haiku, edited and with an introduction by Allan Burns Snapshot Press, 2014 479 pages, $49.95–hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14462 Each of us has filters, mental and emotional screens that help us interpret experience. Poetry allows us to temporarily install [read more…] A review by Gavin Bieber Birdfinding in British Columbia by Russell Cannings and Richard Cannings Greystone Books, 2013 466 pages, $29.95—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14072 It is safe to say that virtually all North American birders are familiar with the birding reputations of such mega-diverse states as California, Arizona, and Texas—and that many will [read more…] A review by Graham Etherington Rare Birds of North America, by Steve N.G. Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell Princeton University Press, 2014 428 pages, $35.00—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14102 Rare birds: everybody loves ‘em. Whether it’s the wonder that you feel on seeing a bird that’s managed to survive a cross-ocean [read more…] A review by Chelsea Biondolillo America’s Other Audubon, by Joy M. Kiser Princeton Architectural Press, 2012 192 pages, $45.00—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13683 Some books entertain, others educate or enlighten, and still others dazzle with their visual display. America’s Other Audubon by Joy M. Kiser, a former librarian at the Cleveland Museum of [read more…] 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.
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