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A review by Caitlin Kight
Woodpecker, by Gerard Gorman
Reaktion Books, 2018
180 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14922
Gerard Gorman’s Woodpecker is the latest volume in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series, a handsome collection of lavishly illustrated books that explore the natural and cultural history of a range of iconic animals. By examining [read more…]
A review by Lori Potter
Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds, by Bernd Brunner, translated by Jane Billinghurst
Greystone Books, 2017
292 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14791
The book jacket of Birdmania advises that its contents are “quirky.” Soon enough, we learn that this disclosure is not misleading. The book’s quirkiness [read more…]
A review by Rob Fergus
The New Neotropical Companion, by John Kricher
Princeton University Press, 2017
432 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14727 or Amazon.com
The American tropics host some of the world’s most beautiful and charismatic birds. But birding there can be tough. Dazzling looks at radiant displays of iridescence may come [read more…]
A review by Marcia OBara
Birding Southeast Arizona App, by Tucson Audubon Society and the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
For Apple iOS and Android Devices
Available for purchase and download at TucsonAudubon.org
I live in Southeast Arizona, and I love birding here. For years our go-to guide and constant companion has been Tucson Audubon’s spiral-bound [read more…]
A review by Corey C. Husic
Urban Raptors: Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities, edited by Clint W. Boal and Cheryl R. Dykstra
Island Press, 2018
320 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14851
Humans have long lived in proximity to raptors, with stories dating back centuries of Red Kites pestering [read more…]
A review by Dragan Simić
The Birder’s Guide to Africa, by Michael Mills
Go-Away-Birding, 2017
544 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14785
“What happened?”
“He psyched me out. Made me seasick. I think he thinks I’m doing a Big Year. That is hardcore.”
“Are you doing a Big Year?”
“No. You?”
Me? [read more…]
A review by Charlotte Wasylik
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th ed., by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
National Geographic Society, 2017
591 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books NGFG7
Released last autumn, after a six-year wait, the new, seventh edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to [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 Peter Adriaens and Amar Ayyash
Gulls of the World: A Photographic Guide, by Klaus Malling Olsen
Princeton University Press, 2018
488 pages—hardcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14824
It’s been 15 years since Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson presented us with their Gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia. Unlike [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…]
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