 A review by Rick Wright Broken Wing, by David Budbill Green Writers Press, 2016 212 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14839 Diversity, alas, is still not our strong suit in North American birding. There are a few encouraging signs: Women, people of color, and members of other historically under-represented groups are slightly less scarce [read more…] A review by Beth Guldseth A Perfect Day for an Albatross, by Caren Loebel-Fried Cornell Lab Publishing Group, 2017 32 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14797 The conservationist and artist Caren Loebel-Fried is the author of seven award-winning books for children. Her most recent work, A Perfect Day for an Albatross, may be intended [read more…] A review by Dennis Paulson The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands, by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 2017 On line at tinyurl.com/HIMonograph I was happy to be asked to review this online book: I might not have paid much attention to it otherwise, preferring the rustle of pages as I [read more…] A review by Chris Benesh The Australian Bird Guide, by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin Princeton University Press, 2017 566 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14737 Few places on Earth are as well saturated with field guides as Australia. The first modern attempt , Neville Cayley’s [read more…] A review by Diana Doyle Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Field Guide Including West Indian Endemics Residing in Cuba, by Nils Navarro Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, 2015 168 page—softcover Available in English and Spanish ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14535 Bee Hummingbird. Those two words best characterize the tantalizing endemics of Cuba. But this [read more…] A review by Rick Wright HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, by Josep del Hoyo and Nigel J. Collar Lynx Edicions, 2014-2016 2 volumes, 1916 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books HBWCSET In their preliminary remarks to this tally of all the world’s birds, the authors take the [read more…] A review by Charles Hagner The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, by Dan Egan W.W. Norton, 2017 364 pages, hardcover I love Lake Michigan. I have driven around its southern end more times than I can recall. I’ve traced its contours from the windows of jet planes. And I’ve crossed it by ferry. [read more…] A review by Johanna Beam A–Z of Bird Portraits: An Illustrated Guide to Painting Beautiful Birds in Acrylics, by Andrew Forkner Search Press, 2015 144 pages, hardcover The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, by John Muir Laws Heyday, 2016 303 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14644 Bird Art: Drawing Birds Using [read more…] 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…] |
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