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A review by Bill Schmoker
Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior by Marie Read
Rocky Nook, 2019
340 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14938
Given the explosive growth of digital bird photography in the last decade or so, there have been surprisingly few titles devoted [read more…]
A review by Mark VanderVen
Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas, by Owen Deutsch and the American Bird Conservancy
Braided River, 2019
208 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14928
“We are a dying symphony.
No bird knows this,
But us — we know…”
Margaret [read more…]
A review by Frank Izaguirre
Roads, Peoples, Birds, Mountaintops, & Billabongs by Dean Fisher
Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2018
500 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14925
In To See Every Bird on Earth, author Dan Koeppel, while chronicling the first globetrotting birders, describes Dean Fisher: “When I first heard about Fisher, [read more…]
A review by Amar Ayyash
Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene by Tim Dee
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018
239 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 15007
In this unique nature monograph, Tim Dee tackles a topic no author has before: How gulls—something of the once-wild—came to share our [read more…]
A review by Sanford Sorkin
How to Be an Urban Birder, by David Lindo
WILDGuides, 2018
232 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14865
Birdwatching London: All the Best Places to See Birds in the Capital, by David Darrell-Lambert
Safe Haven Books, 2018
192 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 15008
Not every [read more…]
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…]
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