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A review by Caitlin Kight
A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing, by Richard Smyth
Elliott and Thompson, 2017
208 pages—softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14983
Between my sophomore and junior years in college, I worked as a field ornithologist for the Institute for Bird Populations (IBP). I had been [read more…]
A review by Julia Zarankin
The Meaning of Birds, by Simon Barnes
Pegasus Books 2018
208 pages—softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14938
The first time I went birding, I ended up in a park on the western edge of Toronto face to face with a flotilla of ducks. According to my fellow birdwatchers, we [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 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…]
By Ted Floyd, on February 7, 2018 Okay, folks, here’s the first installment of Birding Photo Quizzes for 2018. Before we get underway, we’ll remind you that, as always, the definitive answer and analysis appear in Birding magazine, published by the American Birding Association (ABA). In order to receive Birding and the many other benefits of ABA membership, please join the ABA [read more…]
A review by Johanna Beam
A–Z of Bird Portraits: An Illustrated Guide to Painting Beautiful Birds in Acrylics, by Andrew Forkner
Search Press, 2015
144 pages, hardcover
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, by John Muir Laws
Heyday, 2016
303 pages, softcover
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14644
Bird Art: Drawing Birds Using [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 Ernie Jardine
Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific
by Donald Kroodsma
Princeton University Press, 2016
336 pages, $29.95–hardcover
ABA Sales–Buteo Books #14636
Anyone for a bike ride? How about a 4,200-mile bike ride across the continent? Count me out—I can feel that bicycle seat [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…]
A review by David E. Quady
Undiscovered Owls, by Magnus Robb & The Sound Approach
The Sound Approach, 2015
308 pages, $59.50—hardcover, with 4 CDs
ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14512
Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean, by Scott Weidensaul
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
333 pages, $40.00—hardcover
ABA [read more…]
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