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By Ted Floyd, on December 25, 2017 ¡Feliz Navidad!
It’s Christmas morning here in the ABA Area, as good a time as any for a photo quiz. Our photo is from Nicaragua, where so many of “our” ABA Area breeders are spending the holidays right now. The authors don’t know what this bird is! They have a hunch, but nothing definitive. Oh. [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…]
By Jeff Gordon, on July 1, 2017 Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg preaches the virtues of community, with the ABA Rare Bird Alert Facebook Group featured on the screen behind him
The experience, or at least the run up to it, was not unlike fishing. First, you feel a tap. Then maybe nothing for a while. Then you think you might have [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 Don Jones
Peterson Reference Guide to Birding by Impression, by Kevin T. Karlson and Dale Rosselet
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
286 pages, $30—hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14456
Have you ever been birding with someone, a local expert or a tour guide, who almost seemed to identify a bird before [read more…]
By Ted Floyd, on June 27, 2016 You’ve heard of The Most Interesting Man in the World, yes? Well, Amar Ayyash is on anybody’s shortlist for The Most Interesting Birder in America. Not just interesting, but generous, intelligent, and, in his way, as All-American as they get. To see what we mean, read the interview with Amar [ABA member account required for [read more…]
By Ted Floyd, on June 26, 2016 Remember word problems in math? “Ava runs 3 meters per second; her friend Ella runs 3.5 meters per second. Ava starts 100 meters ahead of Ella…” If you’re a 4th grade math savant, you already know the answer: 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
The thing is, We’re not all 4th grade math savants. The rest of [read more…]
A review by Keith Betton
Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia, by Sébastien Reeber
Princeton University Press, 2016
656 pages, $45—hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14588
This is the latest in the series of Helm Identification Guides, which includes such great titles as Robins and Chats, Woodpeckers of the World, and Owls of [read more…]
By Rick Wright, on July 21, 2015 Yikes, that ain’t English! And what on earth is that strange reptilian creature on the cover?
It’s easy sometimes for us Americans to forget that there is a whole vast birding literature out there that is not published in the US or the UK. On those rare occasions when we are reminded, it’s often by [read more…]
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