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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…] 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…] |
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