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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…]
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A review by Knut Eisermann
Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, [read more…]
By Ted Floyd, on November 1, 2018 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…]
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 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…]
By Ted Floyd, on November 9, 2017 “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…]