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#copyright-container { overflow: hidden; margin: 0px 0 10px 0; } #copyright-container>* { width: 100%; float: left; margin: 0; } #copyright-container>#copyright-container-p { margin-left: -100%; background-color: #ebebeb; width: 100%; } #copyright-container:after { content: “”; display: table; clear: both; } A review by Knut Eisermann Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, [read more…] Wait. What? The August Photo Quiz? But haven’t we already done October? Correct, we’ve already done October. Long story short: We simply forgot to post the August Photo Quiz. Sorry about that! And without further ado . . . This bird is rather obviously an adult male Northern Harrier. That white rump, a field mark [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 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 Lori Potter Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America, by Pete Dunne and Kevin T. Karlson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 320 pages, hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14755 Birds of prey occupy a favored spot in our collective imagination. The Maltese Falcon. The recent bestseller H is [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 Chris Benesh The Australian Bird Guide, by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin Princeton University Press, 2017 566 pages—softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14737 Few places on Earth are as well saturated with field guides as Australia. The first modern attempt , Neville Cayley’s [read more…] A review by Diana Doyle Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Field Guide Including West Indian Endemics Residing in Cuba, by Nils Navarro Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, 2015 168 page—softcover Available in English and Spanish ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14535 Bee Hummingbird. Those two words best characterize the tantalizing endemics of Cuba. But this [read more…] “Just google it.” Or: “Just download the app.” Or, in extreme cases: “Just go to the library.” Those options work 99% of the time in this birding life, but not—until very recently—in the case of Bill Evans and Michael O’Brien’s indispensable Flight Calls of Migratory Birds. You actually had to buy, borrow, or bootleg the [read more…] |
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“Ask Rick Wright”—Thoughts on Being Birderly
A quasi-review by Ted Floyd
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America, by Rick Wright
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
434 pages, hardcover
ABA Sales–Buteo Books 14934
As I was sitting down to write this not-exactly-a-book-review, one of my kids asked me a question about the mathematical details of the orbit of the moon. I [read more…]