 A review by David Bishop Birds of New Guinea, 2nd ed., by Thane K. Pratt and Bruce M. Beehler Princeton University Press, 2016 528 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13578 Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics, by Bruce M. Beehler and Thane K. Pratt Princeton University Press, 2016 668 pages, hardcover A review by Sandra Paci The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art, by Charlotte Sleigh University of Chicago Press, 2017 256 pages, hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14786 First off, let me say that this is an absolutely gorgeous book. I am something of a luddite in my continued preference for physical [read more…] A review by Daniel Lewis Extinct Birds of Hawai’i, by Michael Walther Mutual Publishing, 2016 238 pages, hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14693 Most of Hawai‘i’s endemic birds are endangered, some critically, as are many other animals and plants there. Before human settlement, the islands’ life forms had become almost freakishly abundant and diverse—“endless [read more…] A review by W. Ross Silcock Birds of Montana, by Jeffrey S. Marks, Paul Hendricks, and Daniel Casey Buteo Books, 2016 672 pages, hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books BBMT The first impression on picking this book up—“hefting” might be the more appropriate verb—is one of great size: Weighing in at 5.1 pounds, Birds of [read more…] A review by Grant McCreary Hummingbirds, by John C. Arvin Gorgas Science Foundation, 2016 216 pages, $60—hardcover One of the great milestones in the history of natural history books is John Gould’s Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming- Birds. Published in 25 parts between 1849 and 1861, the five original volumes contain an [read more…] A review by Marky Mutchler Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America, by Nathan Pieplow Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 593 pages, $28—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14630 Songs and calls are very important in bird identification, in many cases as useful as the classic visual field marks, but they are often [read more…] A review by Carrie Laben Being a Bird in North America North of Mexico: Waterfowl to Shorebirds, by Robert Alvo Privately published, 2015 255 pages, $39.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14628 Hitchhiking herons, vultures in chef’s hats, Black Rails borne aloft by balloons: This ain’t Sibley. The first volume of Robert Alvo’s new [read more…] A review by Rick Wright The Natural History of Edward Lear, by Robert McCracken Peck David R. Godine, 2016 224 pages, $40—hardcover It took me years to figure out that there was only one Edward Lear, that the brush responsible for some of the finest natural history illustration of the nineteenth century was wielded by [read more…] A review by Ernie Jardine Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific by Donald Kroodsma Princeton University Press, 2016 336 pages, $29.95–hardcover ABA Sales–Buteo Books #14636 Anyone for a bike ride? How about a 4,200-mile bike ride across the continent? Count me out—I can feel that bicycle seat [read more…] A review by Sheridan Coffey Border Sanctuary: The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant by M. J. Morgan Texas A&M University Press, 2015 240 pages, $32–hardcover Even before its establishment as the third national wildlife refuge in Texas, Santa Ana, the largest remaining area of old growth thorn forest in the U.S., [read more…] |
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