Enjoy this celebration of birding with great food, music, and art while helping the ABA help birds and birders!
At this afternoon party, we will announce the species, and unveil the painting of the 2020 ABA Bird of the Year, by Chicago icon and prominent American artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
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A review by Patricia Paladines and Carl Safina
Ospreys: The Revival of a Global Raptor by Alan Poole
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
220 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14921
When it comes to us and Ospreys, it’s deep and personal. Around 1970, a neighbor took an adolescent Carl to a secret [read more…]
A review by Nick Minor
The Birders: A Melodic Journey through Northern Colombia by Gregg Bleakney
WhereNext, 2019
https://tinyurl.com/y2gwr5dq
As a birder, a communicator, and more simply, a person who just loves a good story, I’m always elated to find media that succeeds at what should be a simple task: depicting birding as birders see [read more…]
A review by Lance Tanino
Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawaii, by Daniel Lewis
Yale University Press, 2018
320 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14862
Belonging on an Island takes us on an amazing historical journey, laying out a feast for connoisseurs of Hawaiian natural history and any reader interested [read more…]
A review by Laura Kammermeier
A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration, by Kenn Kaufman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
282 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14936
Kenn Kaufman’s Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration is a deeply personal look at the phenomenon of bird migration, presented in [read more…]
A review by Dominic Mitchell
Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines, by Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson
Christopher Helm, 2018
2 volumes–1,281 pages, boxed hardcover
ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14873
Birders in Europe and the adjacent areas of North Africa and the Middle East have been well served with ornithological literature over the years. In particular, [read more…]
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 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…]
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A review by Knut Eisermann
Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, [read more…]
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…]
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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…]