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Take a look at the front cover of Birding, vol. 3, no. 1 (January-February 1971): That was so long ago, humans evidently hadn’t yet invented art. Why, they were still using Roman numerals! Now flip the magazine over, and check out the Table of Contents, printed on the back cover: Take a [read more…] A review by Keith Betton The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: Comparing Confusion Species, by Keith Vinicombe, Alan Harris, and Laurel Tucker A & C Black, 2014 396 pages, $42.95—softcover ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14335 The internet tells us that the term “game-changer” was not used outside of sports until 1993. But one of the best [read more…] This past Sunday, I had a very pleasant experience … two experiences at once, actually. One was spending the morning in my local turf with a posse of great birders, including Birding magazine editor Ted Floyd. Left-to-right: my big mug, Shawn Chandler, Danny Akers, Amar Ayyash, Andy Sigler, Ted Floyd, Joel Greenberg.At William [read more…] That, or some variation thereof, is one of the questions I most often hear from beginning birdwatchers. This article in the December 2014 issue of Birder’s Guide to Gear attempts to answer that question by offering the advice of a diverse set of birders from various corners of Canada and the U.S. These are not [read more…] A review by Paul A. Johnsgard Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, Fourth Edition, by Guy Baldassarre Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 1,027 pages in two volumes, $69.95—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14400 In 1942, the American Wildlife Institute published The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, a modest-sized book of 474 [read more…] Every summer, birders anxiously await publication of the “Check-list Supplement” by the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Classification Committee (NACC). The Supplement details revisions to its Check-list (e.g., lumps, splits, new species, new classifications, etc.). Below is a brief rundown of those changes. (You can see the Supplement here.) Be sure to check out the [read more…] A review by Graham Etherington Rare Birds of North America, by Steve N.G. Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell Princeton University Press, 2014 428 pages, $35.00—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14102 Rare birds: everybody loves ’em. Whether it’s the wonder that you feel on seeing a bird that’s managed to survive a cross-ocean [read more…] A review by Amar Ayyash Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight, by Ken Behrens and Cameron Cox Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 xi + 602 pages, $35—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 13931 Perhaps the most challenging form of birding, the identification of birds in flight from a distance is a [read more…] My recent post here about my love/hate relationship with Slaty-backed Gull, got me thinking about being a birder. “Birder” is a pretty wide net, but I think the one thing—or a main thing—that defines a birder is the desire to identify the birds we see. From there, many other forms of inquiry and enjoyment may [read more…] |
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