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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…”
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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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