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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…] 
The 2019 issue of Birder’s Guide to Travel is just now beginning to arrive in members’ mailboxes. But you don’t have to wait until then to see what’s inside. And you don’t have to be an ABA member. You can see the entirety of this issue of Birder’s Guide right now. Simply click here. (Birder’s [read more…] 
The 2018 issue of Birder’s Guide to Gear is now being mailed. If you’re an ABA member, you should find it in your mailbox in the next couple weeks. But you don’t have to wait until then to see what’s inside. And neither do non-members. You can see the entirety of this issue of [read more…] Registration is NOW OPEN for 2019 ABA Young Birder Camps. Join us next summer in Colorado or Delaware for an unforgettable week of birding, friendship, fun, and more! [read more…] The ABA Blog has been in existence for almost 8 years, and there’s a lot of good content back in the archives that deserves an audience now that it might not have received way back when. So, semi-regularly we will bring some of that stuff back. Here’s one by Noah Stycker that was definitely ahead [read more…] A review by Laura Kammermeier One More Warbler: A Life with Birds, by Victor Emanuel with S. Kirk Walsh University of Texas Press, 2017 273 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14740 The first time Victor Emanuel flew over unbroken tropical forest was in 1969, when he and John Rowlett took a flight [read more…] A review by David Liebmann Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, by Noah Strycker Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 326 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14766 Noah Strycker sets four ambitious goals in his latest book: to immerse his readers in different landscapes around the globe, to [read more…] At the Mic: Jeff Kietzmann I am not sure how I ended up on Cottonwood Pass, at the continental divide, 12,126 feet above sea level, in the dead of winter, before sunrise, searching for a white bird in a snowy white landscape and freezing my Florida feet off at 9 degrees Fahrenheit; but there I [read more…] Join the ABA and Partnership for International Birding on a Cuba tour in 2018! [read more…] |
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“Oh. Oh! Wow! Part of the sun is missing! It’s not there! This is for real. Stop the car!”
Left to right: Andrew Floyd, Hannah Floyd, and Jack Solomon ponder an eclipse of the sun. Platte County, Wyoming, USA, Aug. 21, 2017.
We’re in Platte County, Wyoming, population 9,000. This is the sort [read more…]